“Hill 5.14, The Black Female-Led Production Company Founded by Tobi Olujinmi, Has Optioned JL Seegars’ New HAVEN ROMANCE NOVEL SERIES FOR Television Adaptation. The Deal Marks The FIRST LITERARY Option for the London-Based Scriptered Label Since ITS LAUNCH IN 2022. The adptation of the self-publized titles restore me and reever me (Parts 1, 2,”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The adaptation of the self-published titles RESTORE ME an Revive Me (Parts 1, 2, and 3) Will Be Developed in Collaboration with Sony Pictures Television and Eleventh Hour Films, As Part of Hill 5.14’s Ongoing Firm. A uk Broadcaster is also attached, with further deetails to be announced.
The New Haven Series Gaeded Viral Traction on Tiktok, Garnering Over 16 Million Views Under Related Hashtags and Beconout A Standout in The Booktok Community Across 2024 And 2025. Over More Than A Decade, Exploring Themes of Trauma, Healing, and Emotion Recovery Within A Black Southern Community. For the television adaptation, the action will be relocated from it fictional south carolina setting to the uk. Phoebe Okeowo, Who Worked on Amazon Prime’s Book-To-Series Adptation The Power (2023) Will Adapt the Novels for the Small Screen.
“The Moment We Read Revive Me an RESTORE MEwew that this was a Hill 5.14 Story, ”SAID OLUJINMI, NOTING THAT Seegars’ Stories Fit Hill 5.14’s Creative Mission Beautify Characters, Explores Healing Throughout, Powerfully Depicting What Love Looks Like After Trauma, Healthy Sex After Violation. ”
Seegars Praied The Partnership, Noting Olujinmi and Okeowo’s Evident Enthusiasm for the Material.
“FROM OUR FIRST MEETING, TOBI AND PHOEBEE LOVE FOR MY Characters and Their World Has Been Evident, and I I HAVE Every Confidentnce that Passion Will Translate to The Finished Product,”
In Addition to Okeowo, Hill 5.14 Has Collaborated with Such Writers As Victoria Asare-Archer (Missing you) and Sex Education Contributors the Thara Poopla and Bella Heesom and Has Attracked Onscreen Talent Including Weruche Opia (I may be destroy you), Adelayo Adebayo (The Responder) and adjoa andoh (Bridgerton), Who ALSO FRONTS The Hill 5.14-Powced Podcast Discover Me.
Under their Deal with Hill 5.14, SPT-Bned Eleventh Hour Have A Firmst-Look Option to Co-Develop and CO-PODUCE TV Projects On the Company’s Slate, With SPTING ACTING AS The DISTRIB
Seegars is Represented by Sugar23 and Laura Dail Literary Agency.