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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired Alisha Fernandez Miranda‘s memoir My What If Year, pinch America Ferrera group to nutrient a characteristic adaptation.
Heidi Schreck (What nan Constitution Means to Me) is penning nan screenplay, pinch Connor DeSha to exec nutrient via his and Ferrera’s Take Fountain banner. Fernandez Miranda will service arsenic subordinate producer.
Published successful February 2023, My What If Year chronicles Miranda’s bold decision, connected nan cusp of turning 40, to measurement distant from her demanding profession and walk a twelvemonth arsenic an unpaid intern successful industries she had ever dreamed astir but ne'er pursued. Even amidst nan Covid pandemic, Miranda hopped betwixt countries to research nan worlds of Broadway theatre, nan London creation scene, Scottish luxury hotels, and online fitness. Her memoir, meditating connected master burnout, reinvention, and definitions of midlife success, was named a Best New Book by People Magazine and The Boston Globe.
Miranda teams pinch Ferrera connected nan adjustment of her memoir aft moving alongside her arsenic a committee personnel astatine her nonprofit, Poderistas. The ex-CEO and existent Chair astatine I.G. Advisors, a societal effect intelligence agency pinch clients including nan Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, and UN Women, she’s besides nan writer of nan USA Today bestselling novel Someone’s Gotta Give and nan co-author of 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge.
An Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning character known for projects like Barbie and Ugly Betty, Ferrera has astir precocious been seen starring alongside Matthew McConaughey in The Lost Bus, head Paul Greengrass and Apple’s harrowing endurance communicative group against nan backdrop of nan 2018 Camp Fire successful Northern California. Other notable credits include Dumb Money, Superstore and Real Women Have Curves, to sanction a few. Ferrera voices a domiciled other Bill Hader successful Warner Bros.’ caller animated adjustment of The Cat successful nan Hat, retired November 6. She is repped by CAA, head Christy Haubegger, and lawyer Jodi Peikoff.
Schreck astir precocious signed connected to accommodate Belle Burden’s No. 1 New York Times bestseller Strangers, which landed astatine Netflix pursuing a heated bidding war, pinch Gwyneth Paltrow attached to prima and exec produce, and Stacey Sher attached to produce, arsenic we antecedently reported. The writer is champion known for her critically acclaimed play What nan Constitution Means to Me, which had an extended, sold-out tally connected Broadway, was a finalist for nan Pulitzer Prize, earned 2 Tony nominations, and won nan Obie and New York Drama Critics’ Circle awards for Best New American Play. The show toured nationally and was nan astir performed play successful America from 2023-2024. Marielle Heller directed a filmed type which released connected Prime Video. Schreck is repped by Curate, UTA, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
