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HBOMax Buys Film Pitch ‘Catching Out;’ ‘Beautiful Boy’s Nic Sheff Scripting & ’13 Reasons Why’s Brian Yorkey Producing With Makeready’s Brad Weston
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deadline.comBy Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Upstart HBOMax has closed a deal for Catching Out, a feature pitch that will be scripted by Nic Sheff with 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey producing with Makeready’s Brad Weston.
HBOMax stepped up in a competitive situation for a drama that is an exploration of a youth subculture. Yorkey created the Netflix zeitgeist series 13 Reasons Why and he won the Tony and Pulitzer for Broadway’s Next to Normal.
Sheff worked with Yorkey as a co-producer, writer and story editor on 13 Reasons Why, and he was played by Timothy Chalamet in the film Beautiful Boy, which chronicled his addiction struggle in a movie that combined Nic’s memoir, Tweak, with the one written by his father David Sheff,
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