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EXCLUSIVE: Here is simply a basking package group to deed nan marketplace later this week that is judge to person a batch of workplace execs losing their heads. Filmmaker and screenwriter Lindsey Anderson Beer has sold her debut novel, Hollow to Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and is now readying to move that caller into a characteristic movie pinch Sydney Sweeney attached to star.
Beer will nonstop and accommodate nan script. LuckyChap will nutrient on pinch Beer done her Lab Brew banner arsenic good arsenic Sweeney who will nutrient done her Honey Trap Banner. The task will beryllium Honey Trap’s first charismatic movie it will nutrient pursuing nan announcement nan company, which Deadline collapsed yesterday.
As for nan novel, Putnam, which has a way grounds of launching much bestsellers than immoderate different publishing house, made nan awesome preemptive acquisition that took nan task disconnected nan marketplace earlier it could proceed to auction. Sources opportunity nan caller generated important manufacture title instantly upon submission.
The caller is simply a bold reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, told done nan position of Katrina Van Tassel. Reframing 1 of literature’s astir iconic heroines, nan caller positions Van Tassel not arsenic a romanticist prize, but arsenic nan cardinal fig successful a vulnerable enigma and seductive supernatural emotion triangle. The communicative blends gothic atmosphere, psychological intrigue, and seductive thriller elements into a contemporary, high-concept reinvention of nan classical tale.
Sweeney will play Van Tassel successful nan characteristic version. The caller is being fast-tracked for publication and is scheduled for merchandise successful Fall 2027, timed to align pinch improvement of a characteristic movie adaptation.
The book quickly deed workplace book scout lists and nan movie adjustment has generated important liking up of reads. The worldly aligns intimately pinch each parties mandates and visions and starring to Sweeney, Honey Trap and LuckyChap each committing successful grounds time.
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Sources opportunity nan package will hopefully deed nan marketplace officially arsenic soon arsenic this week.
Sweeney is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners Paradigm, Beer is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and WME and LuckyChap is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360.
