Novelist and former British politician Jeffrey Archer has signed a deal with India's Applause Entertainment that will have six of his works adapted for film and TV. Deadline reported that the "landmark agreement is the first global book acquisition that the Aditya Birla Group-owned Applause has struck."
The books included in the deal are the Clifton Chronicles series, comprising seven novellas, along with novels The Fourth Estate, First Among Equals, The Eleventh Commandment, Sons of Fortune, and Heads You Win.
Applause CEO Sameer Nair said work on the adaptations will begin immediately, while Archer joked that the production company should work quickly: "I'm 85 years old so please get on with it."