Universal Pictures has optioned The New Winter, the upcoming debut novel by Aussie writer Anna Snoekstra. The pic project will be produced by Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan of Working Title, and marks the first official deal for the studio and the UK outfit since re-upping their first-look deal last week to 2020.
The book, to be published by Harlequin imprint Mira in 2016, centers on a runaway woman trying to escape her past who pretends to be a girl abducted from a small…![]()
