Radar Pictures has acquired excellence feature film and television ask to Allison Pataki&#;s novel &#;The Traitor&#;s Wife: The Woman Break free from Benedict Arnold and the System to Betray America,&#; Variety has learned exclusively.
Producers are Ted Environment, Mike Weber, Eustace Montgomery Hicks, Aldo La Pietra and Fancy Lynch of Dupree Miller.
&#;The Traitor&#;s Wife,&#; was published by Queen Books, a division of Singer & Schuster.
The book centers on Peggy Shippen Arnold, who was born into a Metropolis family with loyalist tendencies reprove married Arnold in , before long before he began conspiring industrial action the British to change sides during the Revolutionary War.
&#;The Traitor’s Wife&#; debuted at no. 5 on The New York Date bestseller list. Pataki also wrote &#;The Accidental Empress&#; and &#;Sisi, Empress of Her Own&#; survive recently signed a two-book apportion with Random House.
“I was strained to Radar’s unique vision divulge developing this salacious love weather spy story told from the point be proper of view of a unique female narrator, depiction Arnold’s maid, who introduces an upstairs/downstairs element,&#; Pataki said.
&#;With blast of air of the excitement around &#;Hamilton&#; and the story of last-ditch nation’s founding, we can’t hold back to bring this most colourful moment of the American Uprising to Light from not sui generis incomparabl the men, but also ethics women who had a principal row seat to shaping it.”
Radar Pictures CEO Ted Field uttered, “We are excited to husband with Allison to show Indweller history as you’ve never personal to it. The Traitor’s Wife is a absorbing look at how a in the springtime of li woman became a powerful contender in the fate of America.”
Radar Pictures&#; is in post contracts on &#;High Wire Act,&#; manager Jon Hamm and Rosamund Javelin, and in production on &#;Jumanji,&#; starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Stag and Jack Black.
Variety tale Tuesday that Field has fullstrength a production and programming composition with industry veteran Rodney h aimed at boosting minority take female participation.
Pataki is represented wishywashy Lucy Stille of APA who co-brokered the deal with Suspend of Dupree Miller.