2025 is shaping up to be an incredible year of adaptations. The latest novel to receive the silver screen treatment? Caroline O'Donoghue's best-seller, The Rachel Incident.
While it can sometimes be daunting seeing a much-love work retold, it's safe to say The Rachel Incident is in very good hands. The series is set to be produced by Element Pictures, the Irish film studio that was also behind Normal People and Poor Things. Also on board is UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group and Pageboy. Below, brush up on all the details of this very exciting adaptation.
What is The Rachel Incident about?
The eight part series takes its cues from the hilarious novel, which deals with chaos and unrequited love in spades. The official synopsis reads:
"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.
When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife."
Who else is involved in The Rachel Incident?
O'Donoghue has adapted the novel for television herself, collaborating with Jen Statsky, co-creator of Hacks. There's no word yet on which actors will score the roles of Rachel, James, and Fred but, safe to say, we'll be watching closely.
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