Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. My most recent drivers license.records my first name simply as Cal.'So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides.

When will it be released?Ĭurrently unknown.'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. See the full cast (when available) on IMDB. No casting details have been released yet. The adaptation is currently early in its development, without a network or streaming service attached to the project. What’s the status of the Middlesex adaptation? The book itself was written without input or consultation with intersex people (despite the main character’s being intersex), so it remains to be seen whether the Paramount show will do a better job of trying to bring that authenticity to the project. Sam Taylor-Johnson ( Fifty Shades of Grey) is attached to direct.

This new attempt to develop the series seems to be unconnected to the prior project.ĭavid Manson is set to pen the series, known for his work on dramas such as Bloodline and House of Cards.

The rights were originally acquired by HBO back in 2009, but it appears they let it lapse. Paramount Television Studios have acquired the rights to Middlesex. What format will it be? Will the Middlesex adaptation be a Movie or a Series? Over the course of the story, Cal discovers that he is intersex, tracing his transformation to a genetic condition that runs through the family.”

For all the details, here’s what we know about the Middlesex film adaptation: What’s it about? What’s the plot?įrom Variety: “The story follows Calliope “Cal” Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family as they travel from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit, eventually witnessing the race riots of 1967 before moving out to suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides has a tv show adaptation that seems to finally be moving forward. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Sep 6th, 2020 (Last Updated Sep 6th, 2020)

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