According to Deadline, Sharon Horgan, creator of Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters, is working on an adaptation of a contemporary-set romance novel. Vladimir, published in 2022 by author Julia May Jonas (Vladimir: Roman), tells the story of a college professor who cultivates an obsession with a new faculty member on campus after her husband becomes embroiled in a sexual misconduct controversy.
In an interview with Horgan for Bustle‘s “One Nightstand,” the Irish writer and producer discussed how Jonas sought her out for the project. “I was making Bad Sisters and had no headspace whatsoever, and Julia hadn’t written a screenplay before…so it was sent to me as a sort of, ‘Is this something we could do together?’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no, I just don’t have time.’ Then they said, ‘Just read the first chapter.’ So I read the first chapter and then I just made time.”
Horgan told Bustle that she “might consider a ‘little cameo’ appearance, but she is also happy to remain behind the camera for this project.” She continued: “If you’re a single parent, you end up sort of always geographically choosing things that are closer to home. It doesn’t always work out that way, but you really, really try. Also, I love making things that I’m not in and casting people.”
She also named Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died and Irvin D. Yalom’s Love’s Executioner as favorite books of hers. Her project, Bad Sisters, just finished its eight-part second season with a Christmas Day finale episode.
There is currently no expected release date for the Vladimir project. We also don’t know yet whether the project will be a series or a film. What we can hope for, based on the apparent novel, is a darkly funny work that incisively explores sex and sexual politics.