{"id":68925,"date":"2025-04-11T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=68925"},"modified":"2025-04-30T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:03:48","slug":"adolescence-director-eyes-next-project-post-netflix-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/adolescence-director-eyes-next-project-post-netflix-success\/68925\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescence Director Eyes Next Project Post Netflix Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"366\">Philip Barantini is reportedly in talks to direct a film adaptation of <em data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"86\">The Alchemist<\/em>, the beloved novel by Paulo Coelho, signaling a major career milestone for the <em data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"179\">Adolescence<\/em> director. According to <em data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"212\">Variety<\/em>, the project is being developed by Legendary, with Sony\u2019s TriStar Pictures and Palmstar also attached\u2014TriStar is expected to handle global distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"368\" data-end=\"693\">Barantini\u2019s potential involvement comes amid his rising acclaim for <em data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"449\">Adolescence<\/em>, which has become one of Netflix\u2019s biggest English-language hits. If confirmed, he would take on the <em data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"562\">Alchemist<\/em> film following his work on <em data-start=\"590\" data-end=\"606\">Enola Holmes 3<\/em>, another project tied to screenwriter Jack Thorne\u2014who is also penning this adaptation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"1126\"><em data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"710\">The Alchemist<\/em> is a massive property to adapt, having sold over 150 million copies and holding the record for the most translated book by a living author. The novel\u2019s journey of spiritual self-discovery, led by young shepherd Santiago, has captivated readers worldwide since its 1988 release. Despite its popularity, multiple attempts to adapt it have fallen through over the years, making this iteration particularly high-stakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1316\">With Barantini\u2019s raw, character-driven style and Thorne\u2019s proven narrative skills, this adaptation might finally deliver on the promise fans have waited decades to see fulfilled on screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1418\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Barantini is reportedly in talks to direct a film adaptation of The Alchemist, the beloved novel by Paulo Coelho,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":68926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24936],"class_list":["post-68925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-adolescence"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}