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EXCLUSIVE: Laura Lekkos has travel aboard to accommodate Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestseller Expiration Dates, which is successful improvement astatine Amazon MGM Studios pinch Emma Roberts group to star. Deadline first told you astir nan project.
The caller follows a female who receives insubstantial slips from nan beingness pinch nan day her narration will expire. When a man comes on and defies nan pattern, she originates to mobility her predetermined timeline.
Featherweight Pictures’ Jessica Pugh and Chelsea Bradshaw are producing Expiration Dates alongside Belletrists’ Roberts and Karah Preiss, and EPs Matt Matruski, David Stone, and Serle.
Lekkos antecedently wrote nan romanticist comedy Relationship Goals for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Kelly Rowland and Cliff “Method Man” Smith, which was released connected Prime Video connected Feb. 4. It was precocious announced that she will accommodate nan bestselling romanticist drama novel The Marriage Bargain for 20th Century Studios. Her debut novel, All nan Little Ways, was bought by Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books and will beryllium released successful June. She besides wrote nan book for Somewhere Only We Know, a characteristic adjustment of Maureen Goo’s caller group up astatine Netflix, and has aggregate different projects successful development, including Daring to Live for Amazon MGM Studios, a true-story dramedy based connected Sheri Hunter’s memoir. The scribe is repped by Gersh and Felker McGinnis & Ryan.
Serle’s novels person sold millions of copies sold successful complete 30 territories around nan world. Her New York Times bestseller One Italian Summer has sold complete 1.5 copies worldwide and is presently successful improvement astatine Paramount with Temple Hill producing. Her world champion seller In Five Years, which has sold much than 2.3 cardinal copies worldwide successful 32 languages, is successful improvement astatine New Line pinch Working Title producing. Her latest merchandise Once and Again is successful early improvement astatine Apple. Serle’s YA caller When You Were Mine was adapted into nan characteristic film Rosaline, which was produced by 21 Laps and premiered connected Hulu successful 2022. Serle additionally developed nan deed TV adaptation Famous successful Love, based connected her YA bid of nan aforesaid name.
