Long Island Compromise, which will be released on July 9, 2024 from Random House, caused a stir when it hit the TV market earlier this year. Multiple studios tried to get the book, with bids as high as $1 million upfront before the actual deal was negotiated.
Ultimately, the project, featuring Brodesser-Akner and her Fleishman is in Trouble collaborators Timberman, Beverly and Grant, ended up at Apple. For Timberman/Beverly, the project falls outside the company's deal with Lionsgate Television.
Long Island Compromise is set nearly forty years after a wealthy businessman was kidnapped and brutalized before his family paid a ransom for his release. Exploring the ordeal's lasting impact on the man, his wife, and their three adult children, it spans the family's history, winds through decades and generations, and confronts the pillars of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives' tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, psychics and the mostly unspoken love and shared experiences that unite a family forever.
Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, created and produced FX's 2022 limited series Fleishman is in Trouble, based on her 2019 debut novel. It earned her seven Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Brodesser-Akner and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, which she shared.
