EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation with eight bidders, Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar has won the television rights to author Kirstin Chen’s upcoming novel Counterfeit.
Chen will executive produce the series adaptation alongside Ben Smith of Captive Entertainment and Kay Cannon and Laverne McKinnon through K&L Productions.
The producers have started a search for a writer to pen the project.In Counterfeit, as a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer, Ava Wong has built the perfect life.
But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point, and her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years.
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