, an adaptation of the New York Times best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Hans Canosa will direct from Zevin’s adaptation of her own novel and David Garrett’sThe comical love story follows the story of A.J. Fikry , whose life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history and now his prized possession, a rare edition of Poe poems, has been stolen.
Pictures’ Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady are producing alongside Kelsey Law, Canosa and Zevin. ’s Brice Dal Farra, Nayyar, Hale and Hendricks are exec producers. Principle photography is scheduled for this fall.The book has been translated into 38 languages and has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. The film rights to Zevin’s most recent novel,recently sold to Paramount for $2M after an auction with more than 25 bidders.Garrett said: “The reason this is such a wonderful story with such great characters, is that the script is hewn form the most wonderful source material.