Film rights to Linnea Kuuluvainen’s THICK OF THE FOREST optioned by Greenlit Productions

We’re delighted to share that Greenlit Productions has optioned the film rights to Linnea Kuuluvainen’s acclaimed debut novel, THICK OF THE FOREST (Metsän peitto, Gummerus, 2024).

Described as “The Handmaid’s Tale in the Finnish forests,” the novel is a haunting blend of literary fiction, speculative fiction and eco-horror, imagining a future in which nature has turned against humanity.

Essi Haukkamaa, producer at Greenlit Productions shared her enthusiasm:

“Greenlit Productions is delighted to begin a collaboration with the talented author Linnea Kuuluvainen. Her novel Thick of The Forest is a universal and timely story that explores one possible future in which the signs of climate change are already visible in Finland and around the world. At the heart of the story is humanity’s relationship with nature, a bond that connects us all, wherever we live. This gives the project strong potential for international co-production and for reaching a global audience.”

THE THICK OF THE FOREST was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the Kuvastaja Award and the Mirrormere Award. The translation rights have been sold to five territories. The German translation was recently published by Septime Verlag.

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Thick of the Forest

Linnea Kuuluvainen

The natural world has become angry with humanity and is beginning to use its power. To escape nature’s vengeance and isolate themselves from it as well as they can, people have fled to small city-states. One of them is the former city of Turku, where a tightly guarded Nation has been established. Ingrid grew up in this new world, living all her life in the Nation. After her mother’s death, she gets a job with a research group called Wild Rosemary, whose task is to map the conditions outside the walls of the Nation. Although the forest has been pacified, it is still angry and dangerous. And soon there is discord among the researchers as well.

The Thick of the Forest is an entrancing and linguistically captivating first novel about a forest that haunts people and two women whose stories intersect.