See-Saw Films options Father Figure novel for fanboy
June 25, 2025
See-Saw Films (part of the Mediawan group) has announced the option of Emma Forrest’s (Royals, Busy Being Free) upcoming novel Father Figure. The book will be adapted for television by See-Saw’s label, fanboy, run by Executive Producer Patrick Walters. Executive Producers for the series will be Patrick Walters, Helen Gregory, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Emma Forrest.
Following fanboy’s hit series Sweetpea for Sky Atlantic, and the option of Harry Trevaldwyn’s Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King which debuted to rave reviews, fanboy has optioned Father Figure, a gripping coming-of-age thriller by Emma Forrest. The project marks an exciting next step in fanboy’s mission to champion underdog perspectives and tell emotionally rich, genre-pushing stories with wide appeal. With Father Figure, the label continues to evolve its distinctive lens on the teenage experience – one that’s bold, complex, and always surprising.
Father Figure is the latest in a series of literary options for See-Saw, who also recently acquired the rights to Shifters by Benedict Lombe, and Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal, alongside a first look deal with writer Ben Vanstone.
Father Figure will be published on July 3rd with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group.
Father Figure follows Gail, a troubled scholarship student at the exclusive girls’ school Saint Saviours. Impulsive, bored, and yearning for connection, she’s at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and driven home by your mother. Ezra is rich, powerful, and successful, haunted by the wildness of his youth – and by anxiety over his teenage daughter, Agata. When Agata joins Saint Saviours, Gail and Ezra’s lives collide, setting off a chain of events more dangerous than either could ever predict.
Walters said: “Father Figure is an incredible novel and we’re so excited to be adapting it for television. Emma is a singular talent I’ve long admired since the seminal Your Voice In My Head. In Gail she has created an extraordinary literary heroine who I’ve no doubt will burst on to the screen with an electric force.”
Forrest added: “Not to be too on theme, but I am as giddy as an unbalanced teenage girl to have found at See-Saw and fanboy people so connected to my material, whose ambition and aesthetic so closely mirror my own. I know Patrick and Natasha are without question the ones to help me translate my novel to must watch T.V.”
Forrest is represented by Elinor Burns at Casarotto. Her manager is Ariel Meislin at Kaplan/Perrone and her book agent is Felicity Rubinstein at Lutyens & Rubinstein.
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