Mark Rylance purchases the film rights to Paul Kingsnorth’s crowdfunded novel The Wake. The news is yet another achievement for a book that was once deemed “unpublishable.”
Rylance said: “Paul Kingsnorth has recreated the Norman invasion of England so vividly, I immediately wanted to see and hear a filmed version. His visceral language and thrilling story telling should translate into something as original as the book.
