EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Photos highly-anticipated adaptation of the best-seller Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow is gaining some severe momentum as Oscar winner Siân Heder has been tapped to direct the difference which is predicated on the New York Instances best-selling novel of the identical title by Gabrielle Zevin. Mark Bomback wrote the script primarily based off a draft penned by Zevin. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will produce. Zevin will government Produce.
The novel is a contemporary love story about two mates who meet as kids and reunite as adults to create video video games, discovering an intimacy in digital storytelling that eludes them of their actual lives. The connection explores the intimacy, ardour, and heartbreak of artistic collaboration, set in opposition to the visually groundbreaking worlds delivered to life by the rising online game business of the Nineties-2000s.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has offered over 2.8 million copies worldwide (over 1.5M copies offered in North America. and over 1M copies offered within the UK), together with 40 overseas language territories, and spent over 50 weeks on the New York Instances best-seller record.
The studio has been on excessive on this property since preemptively buying the rights to the e book in 2021 earlier than its publishing date in 2022. Since then the studio has taken its time in creating it bringing on Bomback final yr to adapt the undertaking whereas assembly with potential candidates to direct the movie. Whereas they met with a lot of administrators, the assembly with Heder was simply too exhausting to go up and he or she finally landed the job.
The Academy Award and BAFTA profitable author and director made her debut characteristic, Tallulah, starring Elliot Web page and Alison Janney, premiered on the 2016 Sundance Movie Pageant and was launched as a Netflix authentic. She rose the ranks of rising stars behind the lense after writing and producing for 3 seasons of the Netflix sequence, Orange Is The New Black and has directed episodes of Glow, Orange Is The New Black, The Path and Little America.
The undertaking that put her on the map of upcoming administrators was her most up-to-date movie, CODA, debuted on the Sundance Movie Pageant, the place it was the primary movie to win all 4 main awards and offered to Apple for a file breaking $25 million. The movie acquired the Academy Award for Greatest Image in addition to Greatest Tailored Screenplay for Siân and Greatest Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. On the small display screen, Siân most just lately served as showrunner and government producer of the critically acclaimed sequence Little America for Apple TV+.
Heder is represented by CAA and Mitch Smelkinson of Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP. Zevin is represented by CAA, Sterling Lord Literistic’s Doug Stewart and Cohen Gardner LLP.