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Fox Searchlight options ‘Two Steps Forward’

Fox Searchlight has optioned the film rights to Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist’s novel Two Steps Forward (Text).

Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman will produce the film through their company A Very Good Production, which is currently attached to several TV projects in the US.

Two Steps Forward is told in alternating viewpoints from Zoe, an American artist, and Martin, a British engineer, who meet on the Camino de Santiago walking track in France and Spain. The book will be published on 2 October.

 

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