NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT, THE BODYGUARD OR GUARDING STARS, IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER, YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER

   NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS  

EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL & NOTHING HURT

Ben Reeves' book will become a movie

A bunch of new book adaptations today for you, starting with Marc Turletaub who will helm movie adaptation of Ben Reeves novel EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT which tells the story of Travis, who lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgment. But when Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall, he begins to understand what it means to be truly alive and what might be irrevocably lost in death. No news on the possible stars yet, but stay tuned, we will continue following the project.

 

THE BODYGUARD OR GUARDING STARS

 Netflix is already making a festive feature film based on Katherine Center's THE BODYGUARD. Titled GUARDING STARS it will see Leighton Meester play executive

The Bodyguard will become Guarding Stars film

 protection agent Hannah Brooks whose security firm assigns her to guard Hollywood’s most famous heartthrob, Jack Stapleton (Jared Padalecki). Once the world’s favorite action star, Jack has retreated to his family’s Montana ranch after a scandal and a tragedy left him wary of the public eye. He doesn’t want his ailing mother (Andie MacDowell) to know about a stalker threatening him, so he insists Hannah pose as his girlfriend rather than his bodyguard. Thrust into close quarters, Hannah must juggle her professional instincts with the warmth of Jack’s family and the disarming kindness of the man she’s meant to protect. As the danger escalates and secrets surface, Hannah must decide whether to keep her heart locked down or risk it all for a man who might be far more than a client. 

 

 

IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER

Nina Dobrev will lead the movie version

Peter Hutchings is set to direct Nina Dobrev, Tyler Hoechlin and Virginia Gardner in  the big screen adaptation of IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER major bestseller from Tessa Bailey. Dobrev plays Piper Bellinger a glamorous LA It Girl whose glittering world comes crashing down after a viral mishap gets her cancelled overnight. Cut off from her wealthy family’s safety net, she’s exiled to a rugged fishing town with one ultimatum: fix up her late father’s dive bar – or lose everything. There, she butts heads with Brendan, a gruff sea captain who has zero patience for influencers. He’s the last person she expected – and exactly what she needs.

 

YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER

Prime Video is preparing a romantic comedy movie out of Sarah Hogle's massive hit YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER which will see our

Meghann Fahy and Penn Badgley will st ar

 lovely Meghann Fahy play Naomi Westfield who has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose (Penn Badgley) who holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare. Justin Long, Kyle MacLahlan will also star.

 

LEIGHTON MEESTER TO BE JARED PADALECKI'S BODYGUARD IN NEW NETFLIX HOLIDAY ROMCOM

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ROMCOM ADS JARED PADALECKI AS LEAD

Netflix is already preparing their festive romcoms for next year's holiday season and they have cast Jared Padalecki and Leighton Meester as leads in the new adaptation of THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center. He will play a famous actor who hires a bodyguard to protect him from a stalker, but to keep his family from worrying, he has the bodyguard pretend to be his girlfriend. As the situation escalates, the facade wanes and the feelings between the two characters become increasingly real. Andie MacDowell, Walker Hayes, Noah LaLonde and Toby Sandeman also star.

COMEDY SATURDAY: 'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL TRAILER! NEW SITCOMS 'FRIENDS IN LAW', 'DADDY ISSUES', 'SINGLE PARENTS' SET CAST! 'LAST MAN STANDING' TIM DOYLE'S NEW ABC SITCOM

NEW SITCOM PILOT CASTINGS

John Gemberling will star in Friends in Law

NBC HAS 'FRIENDS IN LAW'

Comedy updates this Saturday: NBC is rounding up the cast for their multicam sitcom FRIENDS IN LAW. It will centre on Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Nicole Parker) and Randy (John Gemberling), decide to get married.

FOX HAS 'DADDY ISSUES'

Fox has hired Frasier and Hot in Cleveland star Jane Leeves to star in their comedy DADDY ISSUES  opposite Erin Foster and Don Johnson about Andi (Foster), who refuses to settle down, and her friendship with her playboy

Always divine Jane Leeves will be the mother in Daddy Issues

dad, Roman (Johnson). Andi’s world is turned upside down when she discovers her dad’s fallen in love with her best friend. Jane Leeves will be his trendy ex wife and her mother.

Jake Choi will be a fresh single dad in Single Parents

ABC HAS 'SINGLE PARENTS

ABC is developing a pilot for comedy series SINGLE PARENTS written by New Girl creator which revolves around a group of dysfunctional single parents who lean on one another as they raise their kids, look for love and ultimately realize survival is only possible with the help of one another. Kimrie Lewis will play a hippie single mother, while Jake Choi will be a sleep deprived dad whose wife leaves for college and he has to raise their son alone. Taran Killam is a single day with a daughter who forgot how to be a man, Leighton Meester a

Taran Killam will forget how to be a man overly devoted to his daughter

single mom of an overly attached son, while Brad Garrett will be a rich, old school type of parent with traditional views.

NEW 70'S SET SITCOM FROM LAST MAN STANDING CREATOR
If you miss one of the best sitcoms ever Last Man Standing, its creator Tim Doyle is preparing a new one at ABC set in the 1970s and revolving around an

Sam Straley will be the oldest son of the family

Irish family with a working class dad (Walking Dead's Abraham - Michael Cudlitz), traditional mom (Mary McCormack) and eight boisterous sons who navigate changes big and small during one of America’s most turbulent

Gorgeous Caleb Foote will be one of the sons

decades. The sons will be played by Sawyer Barth, Caleb Foote, Christopher Paul Richards, Jack Gore and Sam Straley as the oldest son.

'ROSEANNE' REVIVAL

CHECK OUT THE NEW TRAILER!

Roseanne returns this month to ABC

Meanwhile, you can check out a trailer for ABC's comeback series ROSE- ANNE which returns March 27th with nine episodes and double opening! Starring Roseanne Barr and John Goodman and the entire old cast, it will explore life, death and everything in between through the relateable, hilarious and brutally honest lens of the Conner household. With the inimitable Roseanne at its epicentre, fresh stories

The entire old cast is returning to the popular sitcom

that tackle today’s issues and even more laughs from a cast and crew that haven’t missed a beat, audiences old and new will celebrate the homecoming of America’s favourite working-class family.