Italian writers to lead the adaptation of Chris Petit novel The Butchers of Berlin
Connect3 Media, Racine Media and Cineflix Media have attached screenwriters Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli to lead the book-to-television adaptation of ‘The Butchers of Berlin’ (Connect3 Media/Racine Media/Cineflix Media). Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli are among the writers of crime drama ‘Gomorrah’ and thriller ‘Don’t Leave Me’ (Non Mi Lasciare). Fasoli and Ravagli are also currently writing ‘ZeroZeroZero’ for Canal+, Sky, and Amazon. Connect3 Media and Racine Media have secured the television rights to ‘The Butchers of Berlin’. In partnership with Cineflix Media, the companies will be developing the book into a scripted series for the international market. ‘The Butchers of Berlin’, written by Chris Petit, is a riveting murder mystery set in war-torn Nazi Germany 1943 and centres on the story of financial crime investigator August Schlegel, who is assigned to a homicide case and finds himself immersed in a world full of questions with no easy answers. This book is the first in a developing series following Schlegel through the plotting and paranoia of the Third Reich. Pablo Salzman and Julien Leroux, SVP, Global Scripted Co-Productions for Cineflix Media, will be shopping the series at upcoming MIPCOM and MIA. ‘The Butchers of Berlin’ was published in 2016 by Simon & Schuster UK. Petit’s other novels include political thrillers ‘The Psalm Killer’, ‘The Human Pool’ and ‘The Passenger’ – which is currently being developed as a feature film.
