Cannes, France– Code to Zero, the thriller spy novel by master storyteller and international New York Times best-selling author Ken Follett, has been optioned by TANDEM Productions (A STUDIOCANAL Company), to be produced as a limited television series. The series will be a contemporary adaptation with worldwide distribution by STUDIOCANAL.

Code to Zero marks a long, successful collaboration with Follett. TANDEM has produced two Event Series of the author’s bestselling novels of the same title: the Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, The Pillars of the Earth, starring Eddie Redmayne, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland; and the Emmy-winning, World Without End, starring Cynthia Nixon, Charlotte Riley and Miranda Richardson.

In this adaptation of Code to Zero, a man awakens to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there; he does not even know his own name. Slowly, he rediscovers his entire life by detective work, uncovering secrets of a conspiracy, set against the battle for global space supremacy between the U.S. and China.