EXCLUSIVE: The novel Next to Heaven hit the market this week. Written by Anonymous, it’s a social satire that is being shopped by WME simultaneously for both a publishing deal and a film/TV deal.
The TV deal has just closed, and the publishing deal will be next. The rights to turn the book into a TV series were snapped up by former AGBO and Chernin executive Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer for their as yet-unnamed production venture.
They will produce the film with Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady. Schaefer most recently ran New Regency and produced The Martian and is an EP on the TV series transfer of Man on Fire.
So, who is Anonymous? Deadline sniffed out that it is James Frey, known for A Million Little Pieces and many other literary works.
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