Trinity College provost and Canadian academic darling Margaret MacMillan will soon see her bestselling book Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World made into a two-part documentary by the National Film Board of Canada, it was announced last week.
MacMillan’s book, about the 1919 peace talks that brought the first world war to an end, was a surprise bestseller when it was released in North America in September 2003 and won a 2003 Governor General’s Award.
Now Montreal-based film production company Galafilm and the NFB have bought the rights to turn the 650-page tome into two one-hour documentaries which should air in 2006. The NFB said that it has found never-before-seen footage of the peace talks which will be included in the documentary.
A story in the Globe and Mail also noted that the dramatic film rights to the book are held by a Nova Scotia producer, although there are no plans right now to dramatize the book. -Graham F. Scott
