Post by Dante on Nov 7, 2006 13:04:24 GMT -5
Novelist brings "Adverbs" to big screen
Daniel Handler's romantic novel "Adverbs," which chronicles a daisy chain of gay and straight relationships, is being turned into a feature.
Handler ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events") will adapt the book for indie firm GreeneStreet Films and "Marie Antoinette" producer Ross Katz.
In the summary, Handler calls it "a novel about love -- a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love."
"It's a wonderful novel with interesting characters and interwoven story lines, which I found impossible to put down," GreeneStreet partner and president John Penotti said.
GreeneStreet and Katz previously collaborated on the Oscar-nominated drama "In the Bedroom."
GreeneStreet Takes on Handler's Adverbs
GreeneStreet Films has bought "Adverbs," the 2006 novel by Daniel Handler, who writes children books under the Lemony Snicket moniker, reports Variety.
Handler will write the screenplay. Ross Katz, who produced GreeneStreet co-production In the Bedroom as well as current period pic Marie Antoinette, will produce.
The novel is a series of interconnected stories about love, with characters fading in and dropping out of storylines. Each tale is grouped under a different adverb.
The book was published by the Ecco Press, imprint of Snicket publisher HarperCollins.
Daniel Handler's romantic novel "Adverbs," which chronicles a daisy chain of gay and straight relationships, is being turned into a feature.
Handler ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events") will adapt the book for indie firm GreeneStreet Films and "Marie Antoinette" producer Ross Katz.
In the summary, Handler calls it "a novel about love -- a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love."
"It's a wonderful novel with interesting characters and interwoven story lines, which I found impossible to put down," GreeneStreet partner and president John Penotti said.
GreeneStreet and Katz previously collaborated on the Oscar-nominated drama "In the Bedroom."
GreeneStreet Takes on Handler's Adverbs
GreeneStreet Films has bought "Adverbs," the 2006 novel by Daniel Handler, who writes children books under the Lemony Snicket moniker, reports Variety.
Handler will write the screenplay. Ross Katz, who produced GreeneStreet co-production In the Bedroom as well as current period pic Marie Antoinette, will produce.
The novel is a series of interconnected stories about love, with characters fading in and dropping out of storylines. Each tale is grouped under a different adverb.
The book was published by the Ecco Press, imprint of Snicket publisher HarperCollins.
