

National Best Seller A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A CBC Best Book of the Year An Apple Best Book of the Year A Kobo Best Book of the Year An Indigo Best Book of the Year Wookey is a veteran producer of films and TV series, with credits that include Intervention Canada, Vegas Rat Rods and Ice Road Truckers.WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fictionįinalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Katz, Karen Wookey and Masters will executive produce the Five Little Indians adaptation. The Canadian novel option deal comes in the wake of the discovery of unmarked graves for 215 Indigenous children forced to attend a former residential school run by the Catholic Church in Kamloops, B.C.

It’s an incredible honor to work with Michelle to transition this book to the screen,” Masters said in her own statement. so stunning I dove straight back in to read it again. “Michelle Good’s beautiful novel pulled me in and held me close until the last word. The book also portrays survivors finding their way to survival and healing. I am confident that Prospero Pictures will create a beautiful rendition of the joy, the love and the horror of this story,” Good said in a statement. “This story must be told in every way we can and with such insight into genocide. Domhnall Gleeson Joins Julianne Moore in Apple Drama 'Echo Valley'įive Little Indians, released by Harper Collins in 2020, follows five survivors of Canada’s Indigenous residential schools system after they endured years of detention, suffering and forced assimilation.
