M ontreal’s KOTV has partnered with Endemol Shine North America on a TV adaptation of Quebec author Andrée A. Michaud’s novel Boundary.

The thriller, titled Boundary Pond, is currently in development, with Louis Choquette (19-2) attached as showrunner and director, and William S. Messier (Terreur 404) on board to write the first two scripts and the bible.

The companies will be seeking buyers for the project in the coming weeks, with an initial focus on North America, according to a news release.

Executive producers on the series are KOTV’s president Louis-Philippe Drolet and Endemol Shine North America’s CEO Sharon Levy and SVP, scripted development Lisa Fahrenholt.

KOTV previously secured the rights to Boundary, which was published in 2014 and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction that same year. The novel is set in 1967, where a sequence of deaths shock a small lakeside community at the border of Quebec and Maine.

“Boundary Pond explores the North American tradition of the great outdoors in the sixties, at a moment in history when such a lifestyle became widely democratized,” said Levy in a statement. “Today, it’s bound to strike a chord with all age groups as either a piece of memorabilia with a dark and gruesome spin or a tale of youthful lust and terror set in a familiar decor.”

Mia Desroches, VP of international sales at KOTV, added that the project led to “a very organic partnership between” KOTV and Endemol Shine.

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