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EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and writer Karen McCullah has signed pinch Gersh for practice successful each areas, Deadline has learned.
McCullah’s cinematic canon arsenic a screenwriter includes specified romanticist drama and coming-of-age crowd pleasing favorites arsenic Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, She’s nan Man, The Ugly Truth, and The House Bunny.
The MGM Reese Witherspoon drama Legally Blonde alone was adapted into a Broadway philharmonic arsenic good arsenic an Amazon MGM Studios series, Elle, debuting this summer.
10 Things I Hate About You has likewise continued to germinate acold beyond nan screen, pinch a Broadway philharmonic adjustment now successful late-stage improvement pinch Tony Award-winning shaper Mike Bosner, Golden Globe-winning writer Lena Dunham, Grammy-nominated songwriter Carly Rae Jespsen, Tony Award-winning head and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and two-time Tony Award-winning euphony supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Tom Kitt.
Upcoming, McCullah has The Last Resort, an independently produced romanticist drama group successful nan Philippines, directed by Donald Petrie (How to Lose a Guy successful 10 Days, Miss Congeniality) and starring Daisy Ridley (The Young Woman and the Sea, nan modern Star Wars trilogy) and Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons, Solo: A Star Wars Story).
She has besides adapted nan best-selling books series, A Murder Uncorked, which will prima Emma Roberts and Lucas Bravo.
The Honeymoon, based connected McCullah’s original transportation and successful improvement astatine TriStar, follows a focused and driven female who experiences abrupt heartbreak conscionable days earlier her wedding. Determined not to discarded nan dream honeymoon she’s spent a life (and a fortune) planning, her champion friend encourages her to return nan travel anyway. On a whim, he invites a random man from Instagram to subordinate her because he has nan aforesaid sanction arsenic her ex-fiancé truthful she won’t forfeit his level tickets and mightiness connection nan correct benignant of rebound companionship while connected her ”honeymoon.”
McCullah continues to beryllium represented by her long-time manager, Seth Jaret of Virtual Matter.
