Asacha’s Red Planet adapts Sarah Pinborough’s ‘A Matter Of Blood’ after snagging rights to ‘The Dog-Faced Gods’

Sarah Pinborough
(Source: Asacha)
19-02-2021
Photograph by Martin Godwin

Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures has optioned the rights to Sarah Pinborough’s The Dog-Faced Gods and are in development on the trilogy’s first novel.

A Matter Of Blood is being set as a six-part thriller that will be exec-produced by Belinda Campbell, Tom Mullens and Caroline Skinner for Asacha Media Group-owned Red Planet. Pinborough is adapting the novel for TV and will also executive produce.

The story is set in contemporary London and follows a detective hunting a serial killer, whose search is thrown into doubt when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his brother and his family.

Mullens said: “Sarah is the author of the moment and one of the most prolific and talented fantasy thriller novelists in the world; so we’re over the moon to be working with her as she brings A Matter Of Blood to life with an audaciously bold and brilliant vision. We’re always looking to push the genre boundaries and this is the perfect project to do just that.”

Several other Pinborough novels have been adapted for screen, including Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes and forthcoming Insomnia for Paramount+.

Red Planet is behind Death In Paradise and Australian spin-off Return To Paradise, which is being produced for the ABC.