EXCLUSIVE: Mark Blutman, a Daytime Emmy-winning producer for Ghostwriter, will develop a television adaptation of Stacy Padula’s YA series Gripped.From Padula, David Gunning and Rick Fitzpatrick’s BLE Pictures, Gripped is based off of Padula’s Boston-set five-book series, which chronicles the lives of a group of young adults whose world revolves around their passion for football, their drive to make it to the NFL, and sadly the gripping epidemic of Opioid addiction.Blutman, who also received Emmy nominations as a producer for Girl Meets World, will pen the pilot and serve as executive producer.
Gunning will produce the project.“I’ve always looked for ways to affect young adults with a positive message in my work and so the opportunity to
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