EXCLUSIVE
: Marjan Kamali’s novel
The Stationery Shop,
which tells the story of star-crossed lovers in 1953 Tehran, is getting a television adaptation at
HBO
.
Prentice Penny
’s A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment has teamed up with writer and actress Mozhan Marnò and author Kamali for the small-screen adaptation.
The book, which was published in 2019, tells story of teenagers Roya and Bahman, star-crossed lovers in 1953 Tehran, who are separated on the eve of their marriage by the dramatic events of a coup d’etat that changes the course of history. Sixty years later, an accident of fate leads Roya and Bahman back to each other in the United States and offers them a chance to examine the ghosts of their youth and learn the truth about the fateful day that changed their destiny.
Marnò, who has appeared in
House of Cards
and
The Blacklist
and will feature in Hulu’s upcoming limited series
Pam & Tommy,
will write the pilot script. Marnò’s screenplay Yalda, which she will also direct, is being produced by Anonymous Content and her screenplay
When The Lights Go Out
was a play starring Laura Innes at New York Stage and Film.
She will exec produce with
Insecure
and
Pause with Sam Jay
exec producer Penny. A Penny For Your Thoughts’ Head of
Development
Alex Soler is co-executive producing the project with Kamali on board as a consulting producer.
It is the latest project from A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment for the premium cable network;
Insecure
showrunner Penny recently teamed up with
Atlanta’s
Janine Habers on a single-camera comedy about convicted felon T.R. “The Brick” Johnson who once was one of America’s most beloved athletes. It comes as
Insecure
heads into its fifth and final season and
Pause with Sam Jay
was renewed for a second season.
Penny also recently named Chris Pollack as Presdint and Partner of his production company and brought Theresa Kang-Lowe and her company Blue Marble Management on board to manage Penny and A Penny For Your Thoughts.
Marnò is repped by Anonymous Content and Piekoff/Mahan, Kamali is represented by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates and Sugar23 and Penny and A Penny For Your Thought Entertainment by is repped WME, Theresa Kang-Lowe’s Blue Marble Management, and attorneys John Meigs and Adam Kaller.