

Mackie, who set up Orchid Pictures last year with Sky’s Hannah Campbell, is circling three or four other projects. The book rights were represented by Luke Speed of Curtis Brown Group and Josie Freeman of ICM. “Rock Paper Scissors” will publish in the U.K. It’s more than a dream come true and I can’t wait to see ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ on Netflix.” “I can’t imagine anyone more wonderful than Suzanne and Hannah at Orchid Pictures, and I’m excited and grateful that my book is in such safe hands. “I secretly hoped that someone wonderful might fall in love with ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ and want to adapt it for television,” said Feeney. “It’s good, it’s scary and it’s character-driven,” says Mackie of the project. Mackie told Variety that the book will be reimagined as a six-part series for Netflix, which backs Orchid Pictures. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. The couple knows this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. Things have been wrong with the couple for a long time: self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life, and can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.Įvery anniversary, the couple exchanges traditional gifts while Amelia Wright writes her husband a letter that she never lets him read - until now.

“Rock Paper Scissors” - the logline for which is, “Think you know the person you married? Think again…” - centers on a troubled marriage that comes to a head during a Scottish weekend getaway that Mr. Her debut novel “Sometimes I Lie,” which has been translated into more than 20 languages, is also being made into a TV series by Warner Bros.

“The Crown” executive producer Suzanne Mackie has landed one of the first projects out of her newly formed production banner, Orchid Pictures, scoring the option on author Alice Feeney’s highly anticipated thriller “Rock Paper Scissors.”įeeney is the New York Times-bestselling author behind “His & Hers,” which is also being adapted into a series by Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo and Endeavor Content, who snapped up rights last year.
