EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has pre-emptively acquired film rights to Miss Archer, the highly anticipated debut novel by Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jordan Harrison. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force will produce through their producing deal at Sony.
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, won North American publishing rights after a heated 13-way auction from Julie Barer at The Book Group and will publish Miss Archer in early 2027. Harrison will adapt his novel for the screen. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures alongside Color Force’s Head of Film, Khaliah Neal.
The novel follows Dre, a young woman hired to be a governess, and Albie, the strange boy she is entrusted to raise in an isolated, gothic mansion where all are forced to maintain the illusion that the year is 1884. At first, Dre works hard to embody the role of ‘Miss Archer,’ with comportment lessons and period-appropriate dresses. But mysteries soon arise, and with each new discovery Dre grows more protective of Albie, who may hold the key to human survival.
Harrison broke through in 2015 with Marjorie Prime, a critically acclaimed play that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. The play was later adapted into a feature film, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. New York based Harrison has written nearly 20 plays and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Horton Foote Prize. His latest work, The Antiquities, recently completed a sold-out run at New York’s Playwrights Horizons and is nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play.
Harrison is represented by UTA and Curate.
Color Force is currently in pre-production on Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the next film in The Hunger Games series. On the television side, they are in pre-production with Ryan Murphy on American Love Story, which follows the courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Jacobson and Simpson are 2025 BAFTA nominees for their acclaimed FX series Say Nothing. Color Force’s most recent films include one of the biggest holiday tentpoles of 2023, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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