'The Bear' Creator Christopher Storer Is Preparing the Next FX Bidding War

Christopher Storer

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The bear Creator Christopher Storer has set his next show for FX.

Storer and the John Landgraf-led network have acquired the rights to Sarah Harman’s upcoming book All the other mothers hate me After an extensive bidding war. In fact, sources say Hollywood Reporter More than a dozen companies were competing for the author’s debut novel about an American woman who suspects her son may have killed a wealthy student at his private school in west London. Eventually, Storer, whose stock soared with the success of the breakout series The bearAnd FX, where he maintains an overall deal, has proven a winner.

Storer’s half-hour dark comedy earned 13 Emmy nominations for its first season, including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, as well as acting nominations for stars Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Jon Bernthal, and Oliver. Platt. The first season earned a rare 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, while this year’s second season, which generated record ratings for Hulu, achieved a similarly impressive 99 percent.

News that All the other mothers hate me The adaptation, should it go ahead as a series, comes as the market for larger intellectual property has become increasingly frothy amid successive Hollywood strikes, which have shut down production and left the industry with little else to sell. Before the hiatus, Storer was busy setting up other projects, including signing on to direct Frankie’s winter machine, adapted from Don Winslow’s 2006 novel for Paramount Pictures. Storer will produce the film with Josh Senior and Cooper Wehdi All the other mothers hate me Under the American Light & Fixture logo.

Harman, for her part, is a London-based journalist who has spent more than a decade reporting on major news around the world, most recently as a foreign correspondent for NBC News. Her novel, which will not be published until 2025, became one of the hottest titles at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair. She is expected to adapt her novel for FX under Storer’s direction.

The stock is represented by WME, which also represents representatives All the other mothersAnd so is Kaplan/Perrone.