


The main character starts receiving messages written on playing cards. "I just really fell in love with it, and what more can you ask for than that when your book gets translated to screen?" ABC Zusak says he thinks the TV series turned out better than the book. More than two decades after he wrote it, The Messenger has now been turned into an Australian TV series on the ABC. ( "I recall one in particular around the time The Book Thief was doing really well, and on the back of that these offers were coming through … and I think it was pretty good money that was being put up," he says. Share Another of his novels, international bestseller The Book Thief, was made into a Hollywood blockbuster. But he decided it should be made in Australia.

The bestselling writer says he was offered 'good money' to turn his novel The Messenger into a film or TV series in the US.
