US subscription TV channel HBO have announced that they are to turn to Oscar-nominated film The Kids Are All Right into an hour-long pilot.

The adaptation of the hit movie, which came out last year, will be be penned by the film’s director Lisa Cholodenko.

According to Deadline, the plot will focus on the adventures of the original main five characters: the same-sex partners (played in the film by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore), their son and daughter (played by Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska) and the biological father of the kids/sperm donor who surfaces and tears the family apart (played by Mark Ruffalo in the film).

The cast has not yet been announced. “Deals are still being worked out,” said Deadline.

However, Cholodenko will be exec producer alongside the film’s original producers, Antidote Films’ Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Gilbert Films’ Gary Gilbert and Maven Pictures’ Celine Rattray.