Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films is developing a TV adaptation of James Smythe's new novel, I Still Dream, "after swooping in ahead of its recent publication" to option the book, Deadline reported. Smythe will adapt and also "lead a writer's room for the project, which Carnival wants to unfold across multiple seasons." HarperCollins, which published the novel under its Borough Press imprint in the U.K., calls it a "dark, moving, and ultimately hopeful examination of what it means to be human."
