The Lost and Fringe co-creator has landed his latest producing gig!
Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures is paying over $1 million to the filming rights of Jonathan Tropper’s novel, One Last Thing Before I Go, which will be published in August. JJ Abrams will produce through Bad Robot. Tropper will write the script. This is a hot novel for Paramount to acquire, as there were tons of other studios competing for the rights!
Here’s the logline: Book focuses on Silver, a man in full midlife crisis. He has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected, with his ex about to marry a guy too nice for Silver to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because he’s the one she cares least about letting down. With the wedding looming and Casey in crisis, this broken family struggles, bonds, and comes together only to risk damaging each other even more. Silver has another major complication: he discovers he could die at any moment without an operation he refuses to have.
We think the plot would make an interesting movie! Tropper’s other novels include This Is Where I Leave You (Adam Shankman is directing at Warner Bros.), The Book Of Joe, and Everything Changes.
Are you familiar with any of Tropper’s novels? Would you read and see One Last Thing Before I Go?
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