Heather Hach to adjust the best seller by Mireille Guiliano
Hilary Swank and her producing partner Molly Smith have picked up the rights to the bestseller "French Women Don't Get Fat," setting Heather Hach to adapt.
Swank, who is eyeing the project as a potency starring fomite, and Smith will produce via their recently formed Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films, along with Aaron Geller and Darryl Porter of PorterGeller Entertainment.
"Women," written by former Veuve Clicquot bubbly executive Mireille Guiliano, was a domestic and outside sensation when it was first published in 2004. The nonfiction, lifestyle quran offered perceptiveness on how French women manage to stay slender despite enjoying such calorie-rich fare as wine and pastries. The book sold more than 1 meg copies, reached No. 1 on the New York Times nonfictional prose best-seller heel and was translated into 40 languages. Mireille became a fixture on TV, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," morning news shows and other programs around the world.
2S and PorterGeller, with Hach, are development the project as a romantic comedy following a "girl-next-door champagne company middle manager wHO learns some tough living lessons which help her become the woman she's always treasured to be," the companies said.
Developing features around nonfictional prose book titles or concepts isn't new. New Line has "He's Just Not That Into You," an adaptation of the geological dating lifestyle tome by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.
Swank and Smith also ar developing "Falling Out of Fashion" and "You're Not You." Porter and Geller are development a buddy-action comedy based on the TV series "Soul Train" for Warner Bros. with the show's creator, Don Cornelius, as well as a biopic on the life and music of Miles Davis, which has Don Cheadle is attached to genius and direct.
Hach wrote 2003's "Freaky Friday" as well as "Legally Blonde: The Musical," and is penning a sequel to the novel "Freaky Friday" with the original author Mary Rodgers. She is repped by Endeavor and Fuse Entertainment.
More info
