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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson & Kenya Barris teamed up for ‘The 50th Law’ Series Adaptation

2/23/2021

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Kenya Barris has teamed up to adapt the novel "The 50th Law" for Netflix. It will be a TV series that is based on book written by 50 Cents and Robert Greene. The book has sold over 2 million copies. Writing the pilot script will be Kenya Barris and Hale Rothstein. Barris and Jackson will serve as executive producer. Lionsgate TV will produce the project.

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Here is the goodreads synopsis of The 50th Law:

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a bible for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing.

With intimate stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the release of his album Get Rich or Die Tryin, as well as examples of others who have overcome adversity through understanding and practicing The 50th Law, this deeply inspirational book is perfect for entrepreneurs as well as anyone interested in the extraordinary life of Curtis Jackson.

Source material: Deadline.com

Mila Kunis Takes the Lead in the Adaptation of “Luckiest Girl Alive”

2/22/2021

Mila Kunis, actress of the book-based film "Oz the Great and Powerful" will be the star of the film adaptation of the novel titled "Luckiest Girl Alive." Netflix is the company that is adapting the novel, authored by Jessica Knoll, into a feature film. The best-selling book has been translated in 38 languages and has sold over a million copies. Kunis will play a character named Ani FaNell, who is a New York magazine editor. Kunis will not just star in the film, but also serve as a producer under her production company "Orchard Farm Productions." Bruna Papandrea, Jeanne Snow, Erik Feig, and Lucy Kitada will also be producers of this project. Lucy Kitada, under Picturestart, will oversee the production.

The author herself, Jessica Knoll, will adapt the screenplay and will be an executive producer. Directing the film will be Mike Barker. Barker will also be an executive producers along with Lisa Sterbakov (for Orchard Farm Productions), Steve Hutensky (for Made Up Stories), and Shayne Fiske Goldner (for Picturestart).

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Here is the goodreads synopsis of Luckiest Girl Alive:

HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.

As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.

But Ani has a secret.

There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.

With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.

The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

Source material: Variety.com

Gabrielle Union And Zach Braff are cast in the adaptation of 'Cheaper By The Dozen'

2/21/2021

Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff are cast members in the latest adaptation of Cheaper by the Dozen for Disney+. They will play the parents of 10 kids. The book is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. It was published in 1948. Joining Union and Braff are Journee Brown, Kyle Rogers, Andre Robinson, Caylee Blosenski, Aryan Simhadri, Leo A. Perry, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Christian Cote, Sebastian Cote, and Luke Prael.

Kenya Barris and Jenifer Rice-Genzuk will write the script. Directing the featurew will be Gail Lerner while Shawn Levy ( 2003's director of the remake of Cheaper by the Dozen) will be an executive producer along with Gabrielle Union.

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Here is the goodreads synopsis of Cheaper by the Dozen:

This bestselling memoir is the unforgettable story of two parents, twelve kids, and a world of laughter and love.

Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family.

Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace.

The heartwarming and comic stories of the jumbo-size Gilbreth clan have delighted generations of readers, and will keep you and yours laughing for years.

Source material: Deadline.com

Crime Novel ‘Gone Bamboo’ by Anthony Bourdain Will Be A Scripted Series

2/20/2021

Anthony Bourdain's fictional crime novel "Gone Bamboo" will be adapted into a scripted series. The book was published in 1997 and was the chef's second fiction book. His first book was Bone in the Throat. Producing the project are Webster Stone and Robert Stone.

Here is the statement from Anthony Bourdain that was published in his book introduction:

“I wanted to write a sociopath beach book. I wanted a hero and heroine as lazy, mercenary, lustful and free of redeeming qualities as I sometimes see myself.”

Bourdain wrote the novel when he spent his time at St. Martin. He stated that he was trying to redeem his own botched jobs early in his career.

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Here is a statement from Robert Stone about the author:

“Tony might have had a real career as a crime novelist if those damn travel shows didn’t keep getting in the way.”

Here is the goodreads synopsis of Gone Bamboo:

Henry and his wife, Frances, live an idyllic life as two of the Caribbean's most charming ex-pats (and professional assassins). But when Donnie, a powerful capo, is relocated to the island the scene is set for an Elmore Leonard-style mix of low life and high comedy.

Source material: Yahoo.com

Benedict Cumberbatch takes lead in the adaptation of "The 39 Steps"

2/20/2021

Benedict Cumberbatch, actor of book-based Hobbit trilogy movies, will star in the adaptation of The 39 Steps. The updated series will be directed by Edward Berger and was created by Mark L. Smith (he was also involved in book-based movie The Revenant). He will also write the screenplay. The book was authored by John Buchan.

SunnyMarch, Chapter One Pictures, and Anonymous Content are producing the limited series. Cumberbatch will also serve as an executive producer along with Adam Ackland under their production company SunnyMarch banner. Sophie Gardiner, Mark L. Smith, and Edward Berger are also executive producers under Chapter One Pictures. Keith Redmon for Anonymous Content and Cliff Roberts for Syndicate Entertainment are executive producers as well.

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Here is the goodreads synopsis of The 39 Steps:

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man-but one dayreturns home to find him murdered... An obvious suspect, Hannay flees to his native Scotland, pursued by both the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. His life and the security of Britan are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the 'thirty nine steps?'
First published 1915

Source material: Deadline.com

Robert Wisdom and Johnny M. Wu are cast in a memoir adaptation titled "Journal For Jordan"

2/20/2021

Robert Wisdom( actor of book-based movie Motherless Brooklyn and book-based TV series The Hot Zone) and Johnny M. Wu (actor of book-based TV series Tracers and Limitless) has been cast in the memoir adaptation of Dana Canedy's book titled "A Journal for Jordan." The book was written in 2008 and the film adaptation will be directed by Denzel Washington. Virgil Williams will write the screenplay. Wisdom and Mu will join newcomer Jalon Christian, Michael B. Jordan and Chante Adams. Producing the project are Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Denzel Washington, Aaron L. Gilbert, and Michael B. Jordan. Jason Cloth will serve as an executive producer.

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Here is the goodreads synopsis of A Journal for Jordan:

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old.

A Journal for Jordan is a mother’s letter to her son–fierce in its honesty–about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.

A father figure to the soldiers under his command, Charles moved naturally into writing to his son. In neat block letters, he counseled him on everything from how to withstand disappointment and deal with adversaries to how to behave on a date. And he also wrote, from his tent, of recovering a young soldier’s body, piece by piece, from a tank–and the importance of honoring that young man’s life. He finished the journal two months before his death while home on a two-week leave, so intoxicated with love for his infant son that he barely slept.

Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together–two seemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply. She was a Pulitzer Prize—winning editor for the New York Times who struggled with her weight. He was a decorated military officer with a sculpted body who got his news from television. She was impatient, brash, and cynical about love. He was excruciatingly shy and stubborn, and put his military service before anything else. In these pages, we relive with Dana the slow unfolding of their love, their decision to become a family, the chilling news that Charles has been deployed to Iraq, and the birth of their son.

In perhaps the most wrenching chapter in the book, Dana recounts her search for answers about Charles’s death. Unsatisfied with the army’s official version of what happened and determined to uncover the truth, she pored over summaries of battalion operations reports and drew on her well-honed reporting skills to interview the men who were with Charles on his last convoy, his commanding officers, and other key individuals. In the end, she arrived at an account of Charles’s death–and his last days in his battalion–that was more difficult to face than the story she had been told, but that affirmed the decency and courage of this warrior and father.

A Journal for Jordan is a tender introduction, a loving good-bye, a reporter’s inquiry into her soldier’s life, and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.

Source material: Deadline.com

Kerry Washington & Charlize Theron enroll in the film adaptation of "The School for Good and Evil"

2/20/2021

Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron has join the cast of Netflix's movie adaptation of "The School for Good and Evil." Washington will be playing Professor Dovey while Theron will play Lady Lesso. The film is based on a YA fantasy novel authored by Soman Chainani. The book series has sold over 2.5 million copies and has been translated into 30 languages. Paul Feig is directing the feature while writing the screenplay are Laura Solon and David Magee. Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron will join the cast member Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso.

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The announcement of Washington and Theron's involvement with the project was made on the director's twitter account. Producing the features are Joe Roth, Jeffrey Kirschenbaum, Jane Startz, Laura Fischer, and Paul Feig.

Here is the goodreads synopsis of book one of The School for Good and Evil:

The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.

This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.

But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are…

Source material: Deadline.com

Felicity Jones & Shailene Woodley are involved in Netflix's adaptation of "The Last Letter From Your Lover."

2/16/2021

Felicity Jones & Shailene Woodley are involved in the Netflix's adaptation of The Last Letter From Your Lover. The novel was authored by Jojo Moyes. Augustine Frizzell will direct the feature.

Here is a statement from Felicity Jones about the project:

"The moment I was sent the script, the stars just aligned. I liked how human it was; it was just an immediate response. It had such fun to it, as well as being quite emotional.”

Shailene Woodley joined the cast in order to work with the director. She is playing a married character name Jennifer who is in love with another man; a journalist named Anthony O' Hare.

Here is a statement from Shailene Woodley about her involvement in the project:

"Before I even read the script I was inclined to say yes. I had been really wanting to work with Augustine and just loved her as a human being... Then I read the script and it was really beautifully executed — I don't feel like there's a lot of movies that are told this way and are also executed in a way that's thoroughly entertaining and intelligent."

On the novel, Shailene says, "You witness a woman's journey in how she chooses to live her life. You recognize the struggles that come with being a woman, specifically in that time era, making decisions for herself and choosing a path that perhaps isn't the most well-worn, yet is the most fulfilling. There aren't a lot of stories about women who do make decisions for themselves even though there are serious consequences and repercussions."

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Felicity Jones will play a character name Ellie. Here is her statement about the role she's playing:

"With Ellie, she’s someone who’s had a rough time in a previous relationship and has lost hope in love even existing. When she stumbles across these letters about a completely unabashed and passionate love, it really starts to make her feel that maybe there is hope and a possibility of true connection, but it's done in a way that is very simply and truthfully told...I loved the idea that she’s always a bit hungover,"

Here is the goodreads synopsis of The Last Letter From Your Lover:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, a sophisticated, page-turning double love story spanning forty years and an unforgettable Brief Encounter for our times

It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply "B", asking her to leave her husband.

Years later, in 2003, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper's archives. She becomes obsessed by the story and hopeful that it can resurrect her faltering career. Perhaps if these lovers had a happy ending she will find one to her own complicated love life, too. Ellie's search will rewrite history and help her see the truth about her own modern romance.

A spellbinding, intoxicating love story with a knockout ending, The Last Letter from Your Lover will appeal to the readers who have made One Day and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society bestsellers.

Source material: Yahoo.com

Noma Dumezweni Joins The Cast of Disney's Live-Action "Little Mermaid"

2/16/2021

Noma Dumezweni is no stranger to acting in book-based project. she was involved with HBO's top-rated series The Undoing and now she will be involved with the Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
She has joined the cast that includes Halle Bailey who is playing Ariel, the mermaid princess who long to become human. Melissa McCarthy took the villainous role of aunt Ursula. King Triton will be played by Javier Bardem. Ms. Dumezweni's role in the feature hasn't been given yet, but it seemed to be a new role that wasn't in either the fairy tale or the animated-adaptation of the film.

Rob Marshall will direct the feature while David Magee will write the screenplay.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda is producing the feature along with Rob Marshall, Marc Platt and John DeLuca. Overseeing the studio will be Jessica Virtue and Allison Erlikhman.

Source material: Deadline.com

Lashana Lynch Joins the cast of Netflix’s Matilda Movie Musical

2/15/2021

Lashana Lynch has joined the cast of the upcoming Matilda movie musical adaptation for Netflix. She will play the role of Miss Honey, who is Matilda's teacher. Matilda is a children's book that was written by Roald Dahl.

Lashana Lynch has previously played a character in a book-based franchise (James Bond). She is the first black woman to play a 007 agent. There has been negative, racist remark from fans about her playing this role. Here is Lashana Lynch's response to the negative feedback:

“White patriarchy will always have something to say when it comes to things like that,” she says. “But the magnitude of it was ridiculous. For me, none of it is real. As soon as my phone is off or I’m out of the app, it quite literally doesn’t exist any more.”

“the fact that you have to celebrate it, like it’s this New Age thing, like black people have just arrived on the planet. That’s what annoys me about the idea of Idris Elba being ‘the black Bond’... For my community, those are really big things, but for the world, I need you to not care about it.”

Source material: Yahoo.com