Last week, a onetime flight attendantlanded a seven-figure book deal -- this week, she nabbed a seven-figure film one. Screen rights to T.J.
Newman’s first thriller,Falling, landed with Universal Pictures following a heated bidding war. Per one well-placed source, the project, which has been described as "Speed at 35,000 feet," sold for a whopping $1.5 million.
Newman is said to have written her debut novel, the first in a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press, on the backs of airplane napkins and on iPads during her former red-eye route.
It centers on a crowdedflight from New York to L.A., with 140-plus passengers who don't know that their pilot's family was kidnapped a half-hour before takeoff.
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