Some interesting things in the works:
Shana Feste (The Greatest) has been hired by Hilary Swank’s 2S Films to adapt the novel “You’re Not You” and direct it for the big screen. The debut novel of Michelle Wildgen, “You’re Not You” is about a dying woman and the younger woman who arrives to take care of her. (HR)
Screenwriter Liz Garcia (“The Necklace”) has been hired to adapt the first book in the series “The Au Pairs,” written by Melissa de la Cruz, for Warner Bros. De la Cruz’s best-selling novels detail the flirty fun of three teenage girls who answer an ad to become au pairs for the summer to a rich family with four kids. Sex, sand and shopping ensue in the Hamptons-set story. (HR)
“Sex and the City” alum Jenny Bicks has been recruited to pen a pilot script for HBO, that is loosely inspired by the Modern Love column in the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section. Pilot will revolve around the fictionalized male editor of the column and his family life as he endures a messy divorce, a strained relationship with his teenage daughter and a difficult return to the world of dating. (Variety)
Debra Messing is back at NBC. The network is in negotiations to pick up a comedy written by The Starter Wife team of Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott. Messing stars as a laid-off CEO who is as ill-prepared to be a full-time wife and mother as her husband is to provide for the family. (HR)
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they all sound good. But what of Shantaram, to be directed by Mira Nair, starring Johnny Depp? It seems that it’s still in pre-production even though it was announced like, 2 years ago. Ugh.
when will AMELIA (with Hilary Swank, also directed by Nair) come out?
Love Debra Messing, but am I the only one going “ick” at the description of her pilot show? Will this be a painful number of sessions where she never gets back on the job market? Decides being CEO is just not important? And what a slap in the face of those of us who were laid off to have to watch Mizz CEO being taken down a peg, when we have dreams of being taken up a peg? Will it not fail to bow to the shrine of at-home motherhood?