EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has set Justin Kuritzkes to adapt City on Fire, the first of a bestselling novel trilogy by Don Winslow that is being developed as a star vehicle for Austin Butler.
Kuritzkes is hot off the Luca Guadanino-directed Zendaya-starrer Challengers, and Butler is producing along with David Heyman of Heyday Films and Shane Salerno and The Story Factory.
After Challengers, Kuritzkes adapted Guadagnino’s next film Queer, starring Daniel Craig and based on William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel.
In 2019, Kuritzkes’ debut novel, Famous People, was published by Henry Holt and Co. 3000’s Elizabeth Gabler and Marisa Paiva are overseeing the project for the studio, and Drew Reed was instrumental in tracking the book series.
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