Sid Gentle, the production house behind “Killing Eve”, has bought the television rights to Deon Meyer’s best-selling post-apocalyptic novel, “Fever”, reports ScreenDaily.
The series is “set in the near future about a relationship between a father and son after a fever has wiped out 97% of the population,” says Fred Weston Smith, a script editor at Sid Gentle.
“Billed as a cross between Stephen King’s The Stand and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road,
“‘Fever’ is narrated by a 47- year old man who tells of his teenage years when his father founded a small settlement in South Africa, safe from a virus that has killed most of the world’s population. But as the community grew, so did their problems, their jealousies and the relationship between father and son.”
The Crown writer Ed Hemming has been brought on board to write the script for the TV series.