EXCLUSIVE: Abbi Jacobson, co-creator and star of Broad Metropolis and A League of Their Personal, has discovered her subsequent undertaking.
Jacobson is adapting Isle McElroy’s e-book Folks Collide as a collection with UCP and Killer Movies. She is going to function author and showrunner on the undertaking via her Tender Photos banner.
Folks Collide is a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identification, and intercourse, and raises questions concerning the nature of true partnership.
The e-book is centered round Eli and Elizabeth. When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian condo he shares with Elizabeth, his extra organized and profitable spouse, he discovers that he now inhabits her physique. Not solely have they traded our bodies, however Elizabeth, dwelling as Eli, has disappeared with no hint. As Eli comes nearer to discovering his spouse—whereas studying to exist in her physique—he begins to surprise what impact this metamorphosis can have on their relationship and the way lengthy he can preserve the phantasm of dwelling as somebody he isn’t. Will their new marriage wither fully in one another’s our bodies? Or is that this transformation the very factor Eli and Elizabeth want for his or her marriage to thrive?
Revealed by Harpers Collins in September, it was feted as a New York Occasions Critics decide.
Jacobson is including the difference to her dance card, which additionally embrace starring in Netflix’s No Good Deed, created by Liz Feldman and produced by Gloria Sanchez.
It’s the newest undertaking for Common Studio Group’s UCP, which is growing a brand new tackle The Munsters, adapting Elin Hilderbrand’s The 5-Star Weekend for Peacock and has a brand new Cape Concern collection within the works from Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Killer Movies, which was based by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, is behind motion pictures similar to Could December and Previous Lives in addition to classics similar to Youngsters and Boys Don’t Cry. On the TV aspect, it’s concerned in HBO’s Mildred Pierce and Netflix’s Halston.
“I’ve been an enormous fan of Abbi Jacobson’s work for years, and I’m thrilled by her imaginative and prescient for the undertaking,” mentioned McElroy. “I can’t consider a greater author to seize Folks Collide’s mixture of intimacy, drama, and humor. Killer Movies has made a few of my favourite motion pictures of all time. I deeply admire their dedication to creating distinctive, unforgettable work. I’m so grateful for the passion UCP has delivered to Folks Collide. It’s an honor to be working collectively.”
Jacobson is represented by UTA and Karl Austen and Michael Auerbach at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime Levine Pattern & Klein. McElroy is represented by UTA and Janklow & Nesbit.