Simon Baker Teams With Made Up Stories & Agent-Producer Lee-Anne Higgins For TV Adaptation Of Emily Perkins Novel ‘Lioness’

'The Mentalist's Simon Baker and 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Bruna Papandrea are adapting Emily Perkins novel 'Lioness' for TV.

August 8, 2024 · 1 min · 70 words · Joseph Williams

It is alsoback in production on Binge originalStrifeand in post-production on Marcelle Lunams feature film debutAddition.

Baker made his directorial debut withBreath, a 2018 adaptation of Tim Wintons novel of the same name.

It won him a DGA award and a nomination at the AACTA Awards Australias answer to the Emmys.

Bruna Papandrea and Simon Baker; ‘Lioness’ by Emily Perkins

Bruna Papandrea and Simon Baker; ‘Lioness’ by Emily PerkinsGetty Images/Bloomsbury Publishing

Perkins is represented by Rogers, Coleridge and White.