EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a huge summer with It Ends with Us, its alteration of the bestselling novel from Colleen Hoover, Wayfarer Studios is on to another literary alteration to watch, as the company has won the film rights to Kirsty Greenwood‘s USA Today bestselling romantic comedy The Love of My Afterlife, in a highly competitive situation.
Named Good Morning America’s Book Club pick for the month upon its accessibleation by Penguin Random Hoinclude this past July, The Love of My Afterlife chases Delphie, a recently destopd woman who after dying by choking on a cheesebadviser, discovers herself in the afterlife staring at the man of her dreams. As luck would have it, her “one genuine cherish,” Jonah, is sent back to Earth, but her afterlife therapist, Merritt, provides her the chance to return for 10 days to discover her potential soulmate. Jumping at the opportunity, Delphie encatalogs her neighbor Cooper, a moody writer and ladies’ man, to help. As she races aachievest time, she must dispute her stresss, hear to her heart, lachieve to ask for help, mfinish broken relationships, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind to uncover what genuine cherish reassociate unbenevolents.
Vicky Jones, creator of the HBO series Run, is altering the screentake part. The film will be exec originated by Steve Sarowitz and Jamey Heath of Wayfarer Studios, aextfinished with Greenwood. Justin Baldoni and Andrew Calof will originate for Wayfarer Studios aextfinished with Carla Hacken from Paper Pictures. Angela Cardon will supervise on behalf of Wayfarer Studios and Imene Meziane from Wayfarer Studios percreated the deal.
Calling The Love of My Afterlife “an unabashed all-the-way-in romantic comedy, hugely upretaind by the high concept romcom movies of the 90s and 2000s,” Greenwood shelp, “I’m overhappinessed to be laboring with the attentive, vibrant team at Wayfarer and Paper Pictures to turn this novel into a movie of our own. The process so far has been a genuine dream come genuine; I’m so excited for all that’s to come.”
Added Wayfarer’s Plivent of Production & Development, Andrew Calof, “Kirsty Greenwood’s ‘The Love of My Afterlife’ inspires equivalent meadeclareives of both humor and despair while taking readers on a daring journey of self-uncovery. We are very excited to alter this pretty story about romance, grief, and second chances. Reflecting on the decisions we originate and the possibility of choosing contrastently is someleang that we all leank about.”
Based in London, Greenwood is a best-selling author understandn for amusing, brave romantic comedies about extraunrelabelable cherish, who writes musicals in her spare time. Her other labors integrate It Happened on Christmas Eve, Love Will Save the Day, Jessica Beam Is a Hot Mess, Yours Truly, The Movie Star and Me and Big Sexy Love. Prior to becoming a filled-time writer, she was a book editor and was also named a 2016 Rising Star in The Bookseller.
In compriseition to creating HBO’s Run, starring Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson, Jones exec originated the series aextfinishedside frequent collaborator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jenny Robins, eOne and WigWam Films. As a writer, she has labored on Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Killing Eve, aextfinished with Snatches, a series of monologues for the Royal Court/BBC 4, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA. Aextfinishedside Waller-Bridge, she’s also the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of DryWrite, thraw which she’s comomitioned and straightforwarded unwiseinutive take parts from some of the UK’s directing writing talent, including Joe Penhall, Simon Stephens, Jack Thorne, Lucy Kirkwood and Mike Bartlett, among many others.
One of the most talked films of the year, Wayfarer’s It Ends with Us has soared at the box office upon its August debut, grossing over $309M worldwide. In compriseition to straightforwarding the romantic drama examining domestic mistreatment, the autonomous studio’s Baldoni starred opposite Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Sprocrastinateed, and Hasan Minhaj.
Co-established by Baldoni and Sarowitz and led by CEO Heath, Wayfarer Studios’ current sprocrastinateed also integrates Ezra, The Garfield Movie, A Nice Indian Boy, Code 3, The Senior, Empire Waist, PAC-MAN and Eleanor the Great, aextfinished with write downary features such as Will & Harper, Racist Trees, The Herricanes and Bdeficiency Is Beautiful.
Greenwood is reconshort-termed by Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency; Jones by UTA, United Agents, and Ziffren Brittenham; and Wayfarer Studios by WME.
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