Universal Pictures has actually grabbed rights to This Bird Has Actually Flown, the upcoming launching book from The Bracelets’ Susanna Hoffs, who will adjust her own work for the screen.
Liza Chasin and Bruna Papandrea– who just recently partnered for the very first time on the Netflix minimal series Anatomy of a Scandal, based upon Sarah Vaughan’s same-name book– will reteam to produce the movie adjustment for 3Dot Productions and Comprised Stories, respectively. (The set are likewise presently establishing a series based upon Vaughan’s unique Track Record, as we informed you initially in February.).
Set for publication by means of Little, Brown and Business on April 4, 2023, This Bird Has Actually Flown is billed as a romantic funny drawing back the drape on the music organization by means of the intro of a really charming character and her similarly lovely friend.
Steve Hutensky and Sarah Harvey on behalf of Comprised Stories and Margaret Chernin on behalf of 3Dot Productions will likewise produce, with Elder Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers managing the task for Universal.
” As a long-lasting fiction, movie, and music addict, composing the book was the awareness of a dream,” stated Hoffs. “As I was composing This Bird Has Actually Flown, tunes supplied ball game; I envisioned the action and unfolding discussion as if I were enjoying a motion picture spring to life in my head. Getting to adjust the book for the screen is the cherry on top of this jubilant experience.
” I’m likewise a veteran fan of Liza’s and Bruna’s work,” included the This Bird Has Actually Flown author. “When my book-to-film representative, Sylvie Rabineau, shared a list of prospective manufacturers, I zeroed in on them, however they were noted independently. They liked the characters and frisson in between them, the peek behind the drape of a thirty-something female artist having a hard time to endure because world. When they chose to work together on the movie adjustment, and after that Erik Baiers at Universal gotten in touch with the unique, too, I understood we had our supreme all-star team!”
” We understood we needed to collaborate once again when we checked out Susanna’s amazing book. She actually had us at hi!” Papandrea and Chasin shared in a joint declaration. “Her experience in the music biz and her deep love for huge romantic films made it so clear to us that we wished to deal with her on the adjustment. And the icing on the cake is getting to do it with the dazzling folks at Universal.”.
A pioneering force within the male-dominated world of rock-and-roll, Hoffs is best referred to as the co-founder of the cherished pop-rock band The Bangles, having actually partnered with Debbi and Vicki Peterson to form it in 1981. With The Bangles, she taped and launched a string of chart-topping songs consisting of “Manic Monday,” “Stroll Like an Egyptian,” “Hazy Shade of Winter Season” and “Everlasting Flame,” which she likewise co-wrote.
Hoffs started a solo profession following the disbanding of The Bangles in 1989. She later on composed and taped music for the Austin Powers trilogy helmed by her hubby Jay Roach, thus satisfying a long-lasting dream to sing Burt Bacharach’s “The Appearance of Love” and “What’s all of it About Alfie.” The artist just recently finished a solo album of brand-new music produced by Peter Asher, which is set for release this spring.
Chasin established the movie and tv production business 3Dot Productions in 2018, following a remarkable 26-year perform at Working Title Films. Her business is presently in post-production on Lonesome World, a Netflix function starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth, from writer-director Susannah Grant. Its current releases consist of Anatomy of a Scandal and Paramount Pictures’ box-office hit The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt. 3Dot has a first-look movie handle Netflix, in addition to a very first appearance tv handle 5th Season, the international movie and television studio formerly referred to as Undertaking Material.
Comprised Stories is an advancement and production business established by Papandrea in 2017 which just recently produced the Mike Barker-directed adjustment of Jessica Knoll’s unique Luckiest Woman Alive— a Mila Kunis starrer, which was available in as Netflix’s # 1 film internationally upon its October launching. The business’s current television credits consist of Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal and Pieces of Her; the Apple television+ anthology Holler starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie; the genre-bending romantic funny Wolf Like Me for Peacock and Stan that is presently recording its 2nd season; and the Spectrum Originals females’s basketball drama Long Slow Exhale
Comprised Stories just recently covered production on the Prime Video series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, adjusted by Sarah Lambert from Holly Ringland’s launching book. Sigourney Weaver leads that drama set for release in 2023. Papandrea’s banner is likewise presently producing the movie adjustment of Jane Harper’s unique Force of Nature, a follow-up to its 2020 adjustment of her unique The Dry, with Eric Bana repeating his function and Robert Connolly directing.
Hoffs is represented by The Gernert Business, WME and Behr Abramson Levy; Chasin by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; and Papandrea by WME.
