EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has acquired authorities to Katy Hays’ forthcoming novel Home Economics, pinch Oscar victor Julia Roberts attached to star. Roberts will besides nutrient on pinch partners Lisa Roberts Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films explanation alongside Marc Platt, who will nutrient done his Marc Platt Productions.
Hays is group to accommodate her caller and executive produce. Book synopsis and movie crippled are nether wraps.
Home Economics sold successful a competitory publishing auction, landing astatine Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House’s Viking, which will people it successful 2027. It has besides been sold successful 11 world territories.
Jake Bauman and nan Sony Literary squad were instrumental successful bringing nan task to Sony’s 3000 Pictures. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster will oversee for 3000.
Roberts was astir precocious seen successful nan Amazon MGM Studios pic After nan Hunt and is adjacent up successful Panic Carefully for Warner Bros. Hays is nan New York Times bestselling author with her debut novel The Cloister. She besides wrote Saltwater, currently connected nan NYT bestseller list.
Roberts and Red Om Films are represented by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein. Marc Platt is represented by 42 West and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Hays is represented for publishing by Elisabeth Weed and The Book Group, and for movie and tv by CAA.