Exclusive: Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) has been tapped to develop and direct an adaptation of Steven Rowley’s acclaimed bestseller, The Guncle, for Lionsgate.
The Guncle follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsized life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Lionsgate landed rights to the book from Penguin Random House’s Putnam imprint, in a competitive situation, shortly after its publication last May. Rowley is adapting the screenplay and will exec produce. Kristin Burr will produce through her Burr! Productions, alongside Rob Weisbach, with Burr! Productions’ Jessica Friedman to serve as co-producer. James Myers and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the project on behalf of the studio.
“Since we acquired this book last year, it’s become a favorite of readers everywhere, including Jason – who...
The Guncle follows a reclusive, once-famous gay television star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsized life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
Lionsgate landed rights to the book from Penguin Random House’s Putnam imprint, in a competitive situation, shortly after its publication last May. Rowley is adapting the screenplay and will exec produce. Kristin Burr will produce through her Burr! Productions, alongside Rob Weisbach, with Burr! Productions’ Jessica Friedman to serve as co-producer. James Myers and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the project on behalf of the studio.
“Since we acquired this book last year, it’s become a favorite of readers everywhere, including Jason – who...
- 9/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate has emerged the winner of a filmed rights auction for the Steven Rowley novel “The Guncle.”
Published only a week ago via Penguin Random House, the bestselling author’s new book follows a former gay television star who takes in his young niece and nephew after a tragic accident. Entering his reclusive world in Palm Springs, the kids are introduced to his outsized life and unique wisdom, bringing healing for all three.
Rowley will adapt the screenplay as well as executive produce alongside Kristin Burr through her Burr! Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce, with Jessica Friedman of Burr! as co-producer.
“We’re always drawn to stories about people finding connection or growth where they least expect it. This is a fresh, unexpected and heartwarming story of healing grief — a poignant look at family that feels of this moment. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Kristin and Steven...
Published only a week ago via Penguin Random House, the bestselling author’s new book follows a former gay television star who takes in his young niece and nephew after a tragic accident. Entering his reclusive world in Palm Springs, the kids are introduced to his outsized life and unique wisdom, bringing healing for all three.
Rowley will adapt the screenplay as well as executive produce alongside Kristin Burr through her Burr! Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce, with Jessica Friedman of Burr! as co-producer.
“We’re always drawn to stories about people finding connection or growth where they least expect it. This is a fresh, unexpected and heartwarming story of healing grief — a poignant look at family that feels of this moment. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Kristin and Steven...
- 6/2/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Lionsgate has acquired rights The Guncle, the latest book from bestselling author Steven Rowley. Rowley will adapt and executive produce the film, which Kristin Burr will produce via her Burr! Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce.
The book, published last week by Penguin Random House’s Putnam imprint, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay TV star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsized life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
The deal marks the third Rowley book in development after Lily and the Octopus (at Amazon Studios) and The Editor (20th Century Studios). Burr, whose Cruella hit theaters this past weekend, is also a producer on Lionsgate’s upcoming The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage.
“We’re always drawn to stories about people finding connection...
The book, published last week by Penguin Random House’s Putnam imprint, follows a reclusive, once-famous gay TV star who takes his young niece and nephew into his Palm Springs home after their mother dies suddenly, introducing them to his outsized life and unique wisdom and bringing about healing for all three.
The deal marks the third Rowley book in development after Lily and the Octopus (at Amazon Studios) and The Editor (20th Century Studios). Burr, whose Cruella hit theaters this past weekend, is also a producer on Lionsgate’s upcoming The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage.
“We’re always drawn to stories about people finding connection...
- 6/2/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Super-producer Greg Berlanti has set his next feature directing effort as part of an overall film deal at 20th Century Fox.
Berlanti and the Elizabeth Gabler-run imprint Fox 2000 will team on an adaption of “The Editor,” about a young author named James who’s shepherded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when the former first lady worked as a book editor in 1990s New York City. When Onassis pushes him to write a more “authentic” ending, he is forced to confront the truth about his complex family.
Berlanti and Fox 2000 successfully collaborated on last year’s “Love, Simon” a coming-out dramedy that turned $66.3 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. A production timeline was not immediately clear, but “The Editor’s” release will fall under the purview of new Fox owner Disney when it comes to market.
“The Editor” is based on Steven Rowley’s novel of the same name, which will be released by G.
Berlanti and the Elizabeth Gabler-run imprint Fox 2000 will team on an adaption of “The Editor,” about a young author named James who’s shepherded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when the former first lady worked as a book editor in 1990s New York City. When Onassis pushes him to write a more “authentic” ending, he is forced to confront the truth about his complex family.
Berlanti and Fox 2000 successfully collaborated on last year’s “Love, Simon” a coming-out dramedy that turned $66.3 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. A production timeline was not immediately clear, but “The Editor’s” release will fall under the purview of new Fox owner Disney when it comes to market.
“The Editor” is based on Steven Rowley’s novel of the same name, which will be released by G.
- 9/28/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox 2000 has optioned the Steven Rowley novel The Editor, and Greg Berlanti has been set to direct the film and produce it through his Berlanti Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce. This will be the first new project under a new multi-year first look feature deal 20th Century Fox has made for Berlanti Productions. Berlanti has developed a close relationship there with Fox 2000 chief Elizabeth Gabler, on the heels of the Berlanti-directed sleeper Love Simon. He has also set several projects with Tcf chief Emma Watts’ division. All of Berlanti’s film projects are produced by Berlanti Productions president Sarah Schechter.
The author will write the script for The Editor, which Penguin Random House will publish next April. The novel revolves around an author and his world famous editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, after she embraces the latest novel from the long struggling writer and buys it for Doubleday.
The author will write the script for The Editor, which Penguin Random House will publish next April. The novel revolves around an author and his world famous editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, after she embraces the latest novel from the long struggling writer and buys it for Doubleday.
- 9/28/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios has acquired feature film rights to the heartbreaking bestseller Lily and the Octopus. Michael Mitnick (The Current War, HBO’s Vinyl) is already attached to write the screenplay. Author Steven Rowley and Rob Weisbach will executive produce. Lauren O’Connor and Julie Rapaport will oversee for Amazon Studios.
Rowley’s heartbreaking but beautiful debut novel is about the relationship between a man and his dachshund Lily, told in a magical realist style that uses an octopus that attaches to Lily to grapple with ideas about illness (a tumor), death and holding on (and letting go) to the pets we...
Rowley’s heartbreaking but beautiful debut novel is about the relationship between a man and his dachshund Lily, told in a magical realist style that uses an octopus that attaches to Lily to grapple with ideas about illness (a tumor), death and holding on (and letting go) to the pets we...
- 4/13/2018
- by Andy Lewis,Bryn Elise Sandberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amazon Studios has acquired feature film rights to the heartbreaking bestseller<em> <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lily-and-the-Octopus/Steven-Rowley/9781501126239" target="_blank">Lily and the Octopus</a></em>. Michael Mitnick (<em>The Current War</em>, HBO’s <em>Vinyl</em>) is already attached to write the screenplay. Author Steven Rowley and Rob Weisbach will executive produce. Lauren O’Connor and Julie Rapaport will oversee for Amazon Studios.
Rowley’s heartbreaking but beautiful debut novel is about the relationship between a man and his dachshund Lily, told in a magical realist style that uses an octopus that attaches to Lily to grapple with ideas about illness (a tumor), death and holding on (and letting go) to the pets we love. It ...
Rowley’s heartbreaking but beautiful debut novel is about the relationship between a man and his dachshund Lily, told in a magical realist style that uses an octopus that attaches to Lily to grapple with ideas about illness (a tumor), death and holding on (and letting go) to the pets we love. It ...
- 4/13/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Tradition (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books, May 1) by Brendan Kiely
Agencies: ICM/Rob Weisbach Creative
The New York Times best-selling author's newest is getting prepub raves. Pitched as A Separate Peace for the #MeToo era, it's about a scholarship hockey player and a female classmate who intersect at an elite boarding school after she survives a sexual assault by another student.
Barbed Wire Heart (Grand Central Publishing, March 6) by Tess Sharpe
Agency: Apa
Reviewers have been falling all over themselves to praise the award-winning Ya novelist's adult debut, with one writing that the story, about the...
Agencies: ICM/Rob Weisbach Creative
The New York Times best-selling author's newest is getting prepub raves. Pitched as A Separate Peace for the #MeToo era, it's about a scholarship hockey player and a female classmate who intersect at an elite boarding school after she survives a sexual assault by another student.
Barbed Wire Heart (Grand Central Publishing, March 6) by Tess Sharpe
Agency: Apa
Reviewers have been falling all over themselves to praise the award-winning Ya novelist's adult debut, with one writing that the story, about the...
- 2/21/2018
- by Andy Lewis,Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: As Glee winds down, Chris Colfer is creating more opportunities for himself by going deeper into the Land Of Stories. The Golden Globe-winning actor and NY Times bestselling author has inked a new five-book deal with publisher Little, Brown to expand the popular children’s fiction franchise he launched with 2012’s The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell.
That title exploded onto the bestseller list and spawned three sequels, with the fourth Land Of Stories title set to hit shelves next year. Colfer’s new pact includes the fifth and final book in the Land Of Stories series and a boxed set with new companion volumes Queen Red Riding Hood’s Guide To Royalty and The Mother Goose Diaries, to be released in fall 2015. Colfer is also penning a pair of spin-off picture books inspired by Land lore and aimed at younger readers: The Curvy Tree, illustrated by Brandon Dorman for release next fall,...
That title exploded onto the bestseller list and spawned three sequels, with the fourth Land Of Stories title set to hit shelves next year. Colfer’s new pact includes the fifth and final book in the Land Of Stories series and a boxed set with new companion volumes Queen Red Riding Hood’s Guide To Royalty and The Mother Goose Diaries, to be released in fall 2015. Colfer is also penning a pair of spin-off picture books inspired by Land lore and aimed at younger readers: The Curvy Tree, illustrated by Brandon Dorman for release next fall,...
- 11/25/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Josh Brolin is currently in talks for the lead in Crazy for the Storm, marking Sean Penn's return to directing after Into the Wild. Variety reports that the movie should start shooting in the first quarter of next year, should the deal go through Will Fetters adapts from the Norman Ollestad memoir, with a story which tells of the relationship between Ollestad and his father and how the skills he learned from his father aided him in surviving a plane crash, which left him stranded on a mountaintop. Crazy for the Storm is being produced by Gerber Pictures' Bill Gerber as well as Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach. Brolin can be seen in Sony's Men in Black III sci-fi comedy alongside Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
- 8/22/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Josh Brolin is currently in talks for the lead in Crazy for the Storm, marking Sean Penn's return to directing after Into the Wild. Variety reports that the movie should start shooting in the first quarter of next year, should the deal go through Will Fetters adapts from the Norman Ollestad memoir, with a story which tells of the relationship between Ollestad and his father and how the skills he learned from his father aided him in surviving a plane crash, which left him stranded on a mountaintop. Crazy for the Storm is being produced by Gerber Pictures' Bill Gerber as well as Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach. Brolin can be seen in Sony's Men in Black III sci-fi comedy alongside Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
- 8/22/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Josh Brolin is in talks to star in the Sean Penn-directed "Crazy for the Storm" at Warner Bros. Pictures says Variety.
Based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, the story details his relationship with his father and how the skills his father (Brolin) instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop when he was just 11 years old.
Will Fetters penned the script while Bill Gerber, Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach will produce. Shooting aims to kick off in the first quarter of 2013 once Brolin wraps work on Spike Lee's "Oldboy" remake later this fall.
Based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, the story details his relationship with his father and how the skills his father (Brolin) instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop when he was just 11 years old.
Will Fetters penned the script while Bill Gerber, Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach will produce. Shooting aims to kick off in the first quarter of 2013 once Brolin wraps work on Spike Lee's "Oldboy" remake later this fall.
- 8/22/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sean Penn is slipping back into the director's chair for "Crazy for the Storm" at Warner Bros. Pictures says Variety.
Based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, the story details his relationship with his father and how the skills his father instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop.
Penn will only direct, not star, from a script by Will Fetters. Bill Gerber, Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach will produce.
The project marks Penn's first directorial effort since another survival drama, 2007's "Into the Wild".
Based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, the story details his relationship with his father and how the skills his father instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop.
Penn will only direct, not star, from a script by Will Fetters. Bill Gerber, Fonda Snyder and Rob Weisbach will produce.
The project marks Penn's first directorial effort since another survival drama, 2007's "Into the Wild".
- 8/10/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Will Fetters has signed on to write Warner Bros. adventure pic Crazy for the Storm , says The Hollywood Reporter . The film centers on Norman Ollestad's coming of age in Southern California with a father who pushed him to embrace extreme sports, as well as their complicated relationship. When Ollestad was 11, a plane carrying the two crashed in the San Gabriel Mountains, killing his father and stranding Ollestad on an icy peak, where he was forced to use skills his father taught him. Fonda Snyder, Rob Weisbach and Bill Gerber are producing the film.
- 10/16/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Warner Bros.' 'It' scribe, Will Fetters, has booked a new gig with the studio, coming on board to pen the adventure tale "Crazy for the Storm."
"Storm" is based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, published in June by Ecco Press, which has spent more than a month on the Los Angeles Times' best-seller list. Warners acquired rights to the book in the spring.
The project centers on Ollestad's coming of age in Southern California with a father who pushed him to embrace such extreme sports as skiing and surfing, as well as their complicated relationship. When Ollestad was 11, a plane carrying the two crashed in the San Gabriel Mountains, killing his father and stranding Ollestad on an icy peak, where he was forced to use skills his father taught him.
With its story of a quixotic father preoccupied with adventure and a young boy imperiled by an aviation crash,...
"Storm" is based on Norman Ollestad's memoir, published in June by Ecco Press, which has spent more than a month on the Los Angeles Times' best-seller list. Warners acquired rights to the book in the spring.
The project centers on Ollestad's coming of age in Southern California with a father who pushed him to embrace such extreme sports as skiing and surfing, as well as their complicated relationship. When Ollestad was 11, a plane carrying the two crashed in the San Gabriel Mountains, killing his father and stranding Ollestad on an icy peak, where he was forced to use skills his father taught him.
With its story of a quixotic father preoccupied with adventure and a young boy imperiled by an aviation crash,...
- 10/15/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Weinstein Co. has acquired worldwide publishing, film and television rights to Bridie Clark's new novel "I Think She's Got It".
Billed as a modern-day retelling of "Pygmalion", the Manhattan-set novel centers on a shy Midwesterner who is transformed into a sophisticated socialite by a man-about-town who insists he can turn anyone into the latest "it" girl.
Weinstein Books will publish the novel in 2009, with the Weinstein Co. planning to develop and produce it for film and TV.
Clark -- a former book and magazine editor -- this year published the novel "Because She Can", the story of a beleaguered young book editor working for a notoriously tyrannical female publisher, said to have been loosely based on former Regan Books editor Judith Regan.
Weinstein Books president and CEO Rob Weisbach negotiated the deal with the Levine Greenberg Agency's Daniel Greenberg on behalf of the author.
Billed as a modern-day retelling of "Pygmalion", the Manhattan-set novel centers on a shy Midwesterner who is transformed into a sophisticated socialite by a man-about-town who insists he can turn anyone into the latest "it" girl.
Weinstein Books will publish the novel in 2009, with the Weinstein Co. planning to develop and produce it for film and TV.
Clark -- a former book and magazine editor -- this year published the novel "Because She Can", the story of a beleaguered young book editor working for a notoriously tyrannical female publisher, said to have been loosely based on former Regan Books editor Judith Regan.
Weinstein Books president and CEO Rob Weisbach negotiated the deal with the Levine Greenberg Agency's Daniel Greenberg on behalf of the author.
- 11/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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