EXCLUSIVE: Following a bidding war, TriStar Pictures has beaten out a number of suitors and pre-emptively acquired rights to AlisonEspach’s forthcoming novel The Wedding People.
Will Speck and Josh Gordon, who have a first-look deal with Sony Pictures, are set to direct, with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nicole Holofcener writing. “It’s rare to read something that feels like real life, in all the best ways. ..
funny, painful, cathartic and lasting. A throwback to the movies we grew up on with a modern sensibility. This is a story we can’t wait to tell,” said Speck and Gordon.
Speck, Gordon and Eric Fineman will produce through their company Speck + Gordon Inc. alongside Jonathan King and Ash Sarohia for Concordia Studio.
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