Cecelia Ahern is working with Nicole Kidman on a TV adaption of her new book, Roar, a collection of 30 stories about 30 women. The tales act as a snapshot of their thought process as they go through periods of transition.
The book, which is out tomorrow, took Cecelia five years to write and is completely different to anything else she’s ever written. It’s a collection of short, literal and obscure stories about women. For example, it tells the story of a woman who’s actually sitting on a shelf to another woman who’s emitting the sound of a ticking clock.
ROAR is out TOMORROW in Ireland!
November 1st in the UK. pic.twitter.com/Z64ka2GiKG— Cecelia Ahern (@Cecelia_Ahern) October 24, 2018
Speaking on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, Ahern explained how she has discovered a real knack for these shorter works, in saying, "I became addicted to these stories" and "everything I looked at became an idea".
When talking about how zany the stories are, the Dubliner says, "they're very real, they're very quirky, they're humorous and hopefully moving". She sees them as a form of escapism so as to be able to "make sense of the the crazy world we live in".
And also reveals how this "passion project" took some graft to get over the line, "I kind of had to have this made more than anything I've done before".
Last year, at a meeting in America, Cecelia was asked what she was passionate about. She showed them draft essays from this book and today, the best-selling Irish author and the Australian actor will be executive producers of the series, whose showrunners will be Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, the creators of the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series Glow, who have also written for Orange Is the New Black, Nurse Jackie and Weeds.
Roar is being coproduced by Ahern’s Greenlight Go Productions and Kidman’s Blossom Films, one of the makers of last year’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning HBO series Big Little Lies.
There are no details for the release date of the series just yet, but we'll keep you in the loop.
Check out Cecilia's chat in full by pressing the play button in the image at the top of the page.
