“ Warner Independent Pictures has optioned Lori Gottlieb’s Atlantic Monthly article “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough” as well as the rights to her forthcoming book based on the article. Tobey Maguire and his Maguire Entertainment are producing.
(via tumblinas: via Hollywood Reporter)
Meh. Guh.
I’m consoled by the fact that most stuff that gets optioned never gets made. How do you fictionalize this piece and give it a cinematic arc? She’d have to finally meet some dude in end; the unlikelihood (impossibility?) of this is precisely the point of the article.