EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has hired Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Christopher Hampton to adapt Every Valley : The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah , the critically acclaimed book by award-winning historian and bestselling author Charles King, for a film that the indie studio will produce and finance.

Published in 2024, Every Valley uncovers the story behind one of the world’s most beloved musical works, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah . More than a simple origin story, Every Valley reveals the turbulent, gripping world in which Handel’s Messiah was born, an era rife with war, political strife, and personal suffering. With cinematic scope, the book traces the lives of a diverse cast of real historical figures, e

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