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Lionsgate plans to turn Heidi Murkoff’s bestselling how-to manual What to Expect When You’re Expecting into a blueprint for a romantic comedy, and has hired Whip It! scribe Shauna Cross to rewrite the first draft by Heather Hach. The book has sold north of 16 million copies, and is being turned into a pic in the vein of Love Actually, where 5 couples experience the surprises that happen when a stork visit is imminent. They’ll hire a director shortly and will start production next spring. WME reps Cross.
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Awesome news! What this country needs now — more than unity, jobs or a Harry Potter them park for the West Coast Universal Studios — are more sitcom-worn jokes about morning sickness, mood swings and wacky food cravings.
INSPIRATION: Once the release date for this estrogen-fueled epic is announced, have a bunch of pregnant women set to drop on that same date line up outside of Mann’s Chinese Theater to see who can make it all the way through to the closing credits without crowning. Better yet, attach it to some sort of contest, like those ones where people try to win a pickup truck by being the sorry f*ck who touches it the longest. The winner of the WTEWYE contest could win a free…um…popcorn. With pickles. Wacky!
No matter what brilliant marketing scheme Lionsgate uses to sell this sure-fire flick, consider this ONE TICKET SOLD!
God, this sounds awful. A pregnant romantic comedy? Wasn’t this done before with ’9 Months?’
Shauna Cross is the furthest thing from a screenwriter. The writing in Whip It! was god-awful. She should stick with the shitty novels and let professionals write for the screen. Let what’s-her-name who did Erin Brockovich. She’s a GREAT screenwriter.
You’re an idiot Captain Awesome. Read IF I STAY and you’ll shut up.
whether or not captain awesome is an idiot is beyond my ability to assess, but i can’t disagree that WHIP IT is one of the worst produced scripts of the last few years
Yeah, I thought Whip It was unwatchable. But then again, it was a chic flick. My wife loved it. Maybe Shauna is the right person for the job.
You know what is really funny about pregnancy and birth? Nothing. Not one thing. Blah.
Kathern Hiegal.
Thank you.
So all you screenwriters out there, if you really want to make it in hollywood, think about giving up on honing your craft and developing creative and fresh material. Didn’t you realize that what you really should have been doing the last couple decades is getting pregnancy manuals published? Or maybe automotive or appliance manuals will be the next hot concept? So sad.
My kingdom for a virtual barfbag.
More pablum for the Wal-Mart crowd. Guess this is why I rarely go to the movies.
A terrible idea. Isn’t it a medical book? Won’t the movie basically hurt the legitimacy of the title? Will they turn WebMD into a movie too? And who wants to see a real-life medical movie when hardly any of us have insurance?
This movie is like a moustache on a white guy under 40…why?
Unbelievable…is Lionsgate, heck, Hollywood for that matter, starving that much for “name recognition” material? I suppose the book “Where Did I Come From?” is next on the list?
I assume coming next are:
“Windows for Dummies: The Movie”
“How to Program Your Iphone Version2: The Movie”
and the ever so popular:
“Roget’s Thesaurus: The Movie”
I wait with baited breath.
A Romantic Comedy? Clearly the producers have never read the book. It is the most frightening book I have ever read. It makes Stephen King look like Dr. Seuss. Every page is filled with possible causes of tragic death or disease for your new baby. Giving this book as a baby shower gift is worse than giving a DVD copy of Rosemary’s Baby.
couldn’t agree more! i was given this book when i was ‘expecting’ and i hated it! condescending, scaremongering, humourless manual. as a title it is a turn off for me.
It is a perfect storm. Heidi Murkoff, a good business woman with her franschise, is DYING to be famous in Hollywood, AND she will be able to give her daughter an acting gig. Lionsgate has paid for a brand that has deep roots and they think sure we can make this work as a film. Once again, everyone is drinking the kool-aid.
It doesn’t matter, because it’s going to be an invented story. There is no “story” to adapt. But this is one of the worst parenting books ever written. The fact that it’s recommended to every new parent is one of the saddest statements on (and predictions for) our country’s future.
Doesn’t the track-record of pregnancy-related or baby-related “romantic” comedies speak for itself? Be that THE SWITCH or THE BACK-UP Plan, nothing funny about it. I still can remember how absolutely horrible DR. T AND THE WOMEN was, and that one had Richard fing Gere and a cast of fab female actors. Not to mention Heigl’s latest boring outing.
Pregnancy isn’t funny. Stirrups are only funny for men. Perhaps that’s the thing – very few women find the subject funny. Aren’t women the target audience for romcoms?
Think green. Stop wasting resources.
Well reading through the comments, you clearly have a built-in audience. Those who said pregnancy isn’t funny never saw Murphy Brown’s or Miranda Hobbs’ pregnancy on TV. Anything that aspires to be like Love, Actually is fine with me; as long as you have a character as wonderful as the burned out rockstar and his long-time agent as a love story. That was the film, right there.