Stacey May Fowles’ novel “Infidelity” to get film treatment

PanARMENIAN.Net - Stacey May Fowles’ novel “Infidelity” is being developed as a feature film by producers Allison Black of Euclid 431 Pictures and Karen Shaw of Quarterlife Crisis Prods, Variety reprots.

Shaw has been meeting with directors and writers at the Berlin Film Festival about the project, pitching it in the vein of Diane Lane’s 2002 drama “Unfaithful” and Showtime’s series “The Affair.”

“The story was especially appealing and refreshing to us because of the woman’s point of view at the center,” Shaw told Variety.

The story follows a thirtysomething hairdresser on the brink of engagement and a life of predictable expectations. When she meets an married novelist at a party, he slips his fingers under her dress and a torrid affair begins unraveling both of their lives and those around them.

“For Karen and I, ‘Infidelity’ is a taut and sensual page-turner and ultimately a profound story about desire and obsession,” Black said. “Novelist Stacey May Fowles has mapped the architecture of an affair from first intoxication to its erotic highs, but when secrets are revealed, the aftermath of betrayal takes on dangerous and surprising turns.”

Black produced IFC’s “Citizen Gangster,” starring Scott Speedman, and is currently packaging the FBI civil rights thriller “The Devil Is Black” and journalist-driven thriller “The Lion’s Share.”

Shaw recently produced the feature “Khoya” in India, with support from Tribeca All Access. She’s currently in post-production on Magnolia’s horror anthology “XX” and is packaging the romantic drama “The Mating Habits of Widows.”

Fowles’ other novels include “Be Good” and “Fear of Fighting.”

The deal for the movie rights was negotiated by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency.