Hulu is head over heels for Sally Rooney. The streamer, which adapted Rooney’s novel Normal People into a steamy, silver-chain-bedecked hit miniseries, has announced it is set to adapt another Rooney work: her debut novel, Conversations With Friends. Like Normal People, the upcoming project will consist of 12 half-hour episodes. Lenny Abrahamson and Alice Birch will return to direct and write the series, respectively.
Conversations With Friends, released in 2017, revolves around two college-aged best friends whose lives become entangled with those of an older married couple. Rooney will executive produce the series.
Lest you think that’s all the Rooney news that’s fit to print today, Richard Curtis has also announced that he’s reuniting Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones for two shorts that will be aired in the TV special RTÉ Does Comic Relief, an Irish fundraiser for numerous charitable causes. The shorts will jump ahead in time, predicting what would have happened to the mismatched couple 40 years from now.
“I promise you these are two very special bits,” Curtis said, per The Independent. “It’s so much better than anything we’ve ever made. I mean, I can’t even say all about it, because there’s a guest star in it. But it’s really, really beautiful.”
Normal People debuted on Hulu in April, generating instant, zeitgeisty critical praise. People have since become addicted to Marianne’s bangs and Connell’s silver chain. Mescal in particular has become a breakout star, quickly getting added to the laundry list of lads who could play James Bond and inspiring sartorial debates about how he managed to pull off this particular outfit. RTÉ Does Comic Relief will air this Friday, bringing you one last dose of TV’s favorite Irish couple. Then we’ll get Conversations With Friends, which will come out…well, whenever film and TV production resumes as usual again.
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