EXCLUSIVE: SK Global and Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group have teamed to develop, finance and produce a series adaptation of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s international bestseller Before the Coffee Get…
In a competitive situation, SK Global has acquired the rights to the novel which was published last year. Originally adapted from Kawaguchi’s own stage play by the same name,is set in a Tokyo back alley where a café has served carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else very unique for patrons: the chance to travel back in time – but only for the time it takes for their coffee to get cold.
The Jackal Group’s Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady will executive produce the adaptation alongside SK Global Co-Chairman Sidney Kimmel, President of Global Television Marcy Ross, and co-CEO’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin. “Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s magical novel is a genuine page turner; I finished it in one sitting and was completely transported into a beautiful reality of time travel and romance,” said Ross. “To produce this adaptation alongside Hend and Gail is a dream come true.
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