South African Crime Novelist Deon Meyer Bestsellers to Get TV Adaptations From Both Worlds, Paradoxal (EXCLUSIVE)

Meyer will executive produce both series, with "Fauda" scribe Noah Stollman attached as lead writer and showrunner of the spy thriller 'The Hunter,' both brought to market at Series Mania

By Christopher Vourlias

Christopher Vourlias

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South Africa’s International Emmy-nominated production house Both Worlds and Paris-based Paradoxal have entered into an exclusive rights agreement with bestselling South African author Deon Meyer to develop two of his most celebrated properties as premium TV series, the companies announced just before Series Mania. 

Meyer is attached as executive producer on both projects.

“Umzingeli” (“The Hunter”) is an ambitious, contemporary, multi-territorial spy thriller centered on Thobela “Tiny” Mpayipheli, a KGB- and Stasi-trained assassin whose character spans four of Meyer’s novels. Now living under a false identity in Bordeaux, he’s put his past behind him — or so he believes. 

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