The BBC has commissioned an adaptation of the memoir What It Feels Like For a Girl by Paris Lees, "one of the U.K.'s LGBTQIA+ community's most prominent figures, described by i-D magazine as 'the voice of a generation,' " Deadline reported. The eight-part series for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer, is billed as a "wild, anarchic spin on a coming-of-age drama," the project, will start filming next year.
Lees is adapting the story, with Chris Sweeney (The Tourist, Back to Life) as lead director. Hera Pictures (Mary & George, Temple) is producing. Both are executive producers alongside Liza Marshall and Ron O'Berst for Hera Pictures, with Nawfal Faizullah for the BBC.
Describing What It Feels Like For a Girl as a "a deeply personal project," Lees said, "I'm excited, hysterical, thrown and overblown with bliss, but most of all I'm just having so much fun bringing this universe to life in a visual medium.... It's a primal scream--from the depths of a council estate--against a world that would prefer people who don't fit the norm didn't exist. But we do and we're not going away, we're not apologizing and we're not shutting up."