‘Bridgerton’ Creator Chris Van Dusen Developing Series Adaptation Of ‘Girl Abroad’ With A24 & Pacesetter

Peter White

2 May 2024 at 11:15 am·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Van Dusen, creator of Netflix’s Bridgerton, has found his next project.

Van Dusen is developing a TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s book Girl Abroad with A24 and Pacesetter Productions.

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It comes after the team landed the rights after a four-way bidding war.

The book, which was published by Little Brown in February, follows the daughter of a retired rock star who finds herself entangled in scandal and romance after she starts studying abroad in London.

When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it’s the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She’s ready to be free, to discover herself―but first off, to meet the girls she’s rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive boys. And off-limits, with a rule against fraternizing between housemates after unwanted drama with the previous girl.

Abbey has never considered herself a rulebreaker. But soon, she’s lying to her father about her living situation and falling for not one, but two men she can’t have: her rugby-player roommate and a broody musician with a girlfriend. Not to mention, her research for school has gotten her tangled in a deeply hidden scandal of a high nobility family, surrounding her in secrets on all sides. If there’s any hope of Abbey finding love, answers, or a future in London, she’ll have to decide which rules―and hearts―might be worth breaking.

Van Dusen will executive produce through his CVD Productions and serve as showrunner. A24 will produce with Pacesetter Production’s Jessica Rhoades and Alison Mo Massey. It forms part of A24’s first-look deal with Rhoades and Pacesetter. Kennedy will also exec produce.

It is Van Dusen’s latest project since creating the hit Netflix period drama. Last year, he sold a series adaptation of They Both Die At The End, exec produced with Bad Bunny, to Netflix.

Van Dusen is repped by Literate Management and The Nord Group. Kennedy is repped by IAG and Kimberly Brower of Brower Literary & Management for publishing. Pacesetter is repped by UTA and attorney Adam G. Cooper at Jackaway Austin.

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