Truman Capote’s nonfiction masterpiece In Cold Blood still keeps readers riveted. With that in mind, The Weinstein Company has optioned the book for a planned TV series.
The novel, which was first published in serial form in The New Yorker in 1965, centers on the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas. Capote interviewed the men who were convicted of the murder and members of the community.
Entertainment Weekly reports that TWC has hired Kevin Hood to write the script. Actor Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski’s Flying Studios will co-produce. It’s not known if Oldman plans on appearing in it.
“Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood has been riveting audiences since it first hit the literary scene almost fifty years ago, and it continues to have that same thrilling, timeless appeal today,” TWC President/COO David Glasser said in a statement. “We are extremely excited to be partnering with Gary, Doug and the whole Flying Studios team to bring what’s sure to be an unbelievable series to TV viewers.”
In Cold Blood was adapted into a film by Richard Brooks in 1967 and, as Vulture points out, there was a 1996 miniseries already.
Bennett Miller’s Capote and Douglas McGrath’s Infamous both focused on how Capote researched and wrote the novel.
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