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About a century ago I regularly communicated with a writer. His co-authored book was optioned to Hollywood at a then-astronomical price, especially for a tyro (Variety.dictionary can translate). I read the book and it looked like a slam dunk to me. As far as I know the movie was never made. It’s a long trip from optioning a book to the silver screen.
The guy was Jack Passarella. Here’s the book.
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(11-02-2023, 01:51 PM)dabigv13 Wrote: MTL's downfall, coming (well maybe) to a theater near you!
Quote:EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Amy Pascal have emerged victorious in a spirited book-rights auction for How to Rule the World: Yacht Parties, Culture Wars and the Downfall of a President at Stanford. Written by Theo Baker, book tells his story of being an 18-year-old freshman at Stanford who wrote a series of reports for the university’s newspaper skeptical of the questionable research practices of the school’s president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who was on the short list for the Nobel Prize.
https://deadline.com/2023/11/amy-pascal-...235590262/
About a century ago I regularly communicated with a writer. His co-authored book was optioned to Hollywood at a then-astronomical price, especially for a tyro (Variety.dictionary can translate). I read the book and it looked like a slam dunk to me. As far as I know the movie was never made. It’s a long trip from optioning a book to the silver screen.
The guy was Jack Passarella. Here’s the book.