Hollywood Deals: Dave's Divorce Party and Delaney's Apprentice

-- Publishers Weekly, 3/26/2008 7:40:00 AM

Universal has optioned the rights to Laura Dave's May 2008 novel from Viking, The Divorce Party. Hollywood agent Sylvie Rabineau has brokered the deal with Echo Films, Jennifer Aniston and Kristin Hahn's new production company. Gwyn Lurie, who adapted Dave's debut novel, London Is the Best City In America for Reese Witherspoon, will again be on board as the screenwriter. Dave's literary agent is Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. 

HarperCollins also announced news on the film front: Joseph Delaney’s The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch is headed for the silver screen. The forthcoming Warner Bros. film, currently titled The Spook’s Apprentice (which is the book's U.K. title), will be coproduced by Legendary Pictures with Kevin Lima (Enchanted) tapped to direct. The book is the first title in a seven-part series about a 13-year-old boy who abandons his home life to train as an apprentice soldier and fight against witches, ghosts and other creatures. The book (released in the U.K. by Random House) was originally published in 2005 by HC imprint Greenwillow Books; production on the film is slated to start later this year.

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