Fleishman is in trouble author Taffy Brodesser-Akner is adapting her next book Long Island Compromise for Apple.
Following a multi-platform bidding war, Apple secured the rights to develop the dark family drama for television. Like she did with Hulu Flesh man, Brodesser-Akner will adapt her novel (due July 9 from Random House) for Apple and produce alongside Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovitch), Sarah Timberman and former HBO chief Richard Plepler and his Eden Productions.
The drama, which marks Brodesser-Akner’s reunion with Timberman and Grant, is currently in development at Apple. (The iPhone maker and streamer declined to comment.)
Long Island Compromise follows a suburban American family and the lasting impact of the patriarch’s week-long kidnapping on his wife and three children 40 years later.
Brodesser-Akner, award-winning journalist for The New York Times, adapted his first novel, Fleish Man, for Disney-backed Hulu in 2022. The limited series starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody is certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with an 87% score among critics and an 80% rating with viewers. The drama earned five Primetime Emmy nominations, including one for Brodesser-Akner’s writing.
Plepler moved to Apple in 2020 after spending nearly three decades at HBO and produced a number of series for Apple, including Franklin, the problem with Jon Stewart And Black bird.
Amid an industry-wide reduction in spending as streamers and networks resize their programming slates amid deeper contraction, Apple – along with Netflix and Amazon – has continued to spend freely on big packages like Long Island Compromise. The streamer’s drama slate includes the recently renewed film For all humanity and its recently announced spin-off, as well as Pachinko, neuromancer, departure, slow horses And The morning show, among dozens of others.
Brodesser-Akner is replaced by CAA and Levine Plotkin.