A24 will adapt real story of teen who posed as Russian oligarch's son into TV series

The story of London Falling was previously the subject of an article Keefe wrote in The New Yorker, published in 2024. The article focuses on Zac Brettler, a London teenager who fell to his death from a luxury high-rise in 2019. When his confused and grieving parents began poking around into their son’s life, they discovered that he had been posing as the son of a Russian oligarch and was seemingly mixed up with multiple shady figures in the London underworld. This is all covered in the article, and presumably the forthcoming book will dive a bit deeper into the intricacies of the story. 

Keefe also has another project coming to the screen via A24. As of 2023, his 2009 book The Snakehead: An Epic Tale Of The Chinatown Underworld And The American Dream is also up for a series adaptation, and is described as a mix between Chinatown and The Godfather.