Chernin And Rupert Wyatt Tap Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa To Adapt ‘Night Film’
EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been tapped to adapt Night Film, the Marisha Pessl noir novel for Chernin Entertainment and director Rupert Wyatt. Aguirre-Sacasa, one of the saviors who rescued the troubled stage musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, has been working in every medium. He ranges from Glee to scripting the remake of Carrie and The Town That Dreaded Sundown and a screen version of Archie for Warner Bros, to writing the book for the Broadway musical transfer of Magic Mike. In Night Film, a journalist investigates the suspected suicide of a young beauty, and discovers she is the daughter of a reclusive horror film helmer and that the girl was murdered and someone is bent on revenge.
Chernin bought the book in April and attached Wyatt, who directed Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes for the company. Pessl is the author of Special Topics In Calamity Physics, and this book was published by Random House in August. Aguirre-Sacasa is repped by WME.
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