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Galgos Entertainment partners Russell Nuce and Mark Bozek have acquired screen rights to Here Lies Bridget, the debut novel by 21-year old author Paige Harbison. The book’s being published on January 25 by Harlequin Teen. The heroine, Bridget Duke, rules her high school but when she crashes her car and ends up in limbo, she must confront the people she has wronged, all of whom want her to go to hell. The outcome of these meetings will decide her final destination. The producers are going into production on the Halle Berry-starrer Shoe Addicts Anonymous, which is based on the novel by Beth Harbison — Paige’s mother. Deal was made by the Jane Rotrosen Agency.
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Read the galleys when i was lowly(wish i could write) assistant at Harlequin. Paige is awesome writer…it’s a mashup of “Mean Girls” and “It’s A Wonderful Life”. I hate her.
You sound like a plant. This stuff makes me disrespect everybody involved, from the writer to the mother to the agent. And yes, as another poster said, this deal smacks of the worst kind of nepotism.
The next Tolstoy discovered????
Tolstoy is Pusching it….Diablo Cody perhaps.
Glad to see nepotism is still alive and well. Maybe we could hook Paige up with the hack kid who wrote Twelve — they’re perfect for each other!
It is not nepotism. Talent in the genes is likely. Maybe the producers just liked it and since they have a relationship with the mother, they looked at the daughters book. But not nepotism. Look up the word. Btw, why so negative???
Another dead girl movie! YAY! Keep the awesome roles for women coming.
Yes, they should, instead, have optioned a book by a fine literature aficionado who spells “pushing” “Pusching”.
It would probably be a good idea to read the book before saying it’s crap.
If Parallel Films makes this, she can consider it a practice run. No one will ever see it.
Parallel Films has nothing to do with this project.
After reading an early draft of HERE LIES BRIDGET and turning the final page, I wished every teenager was assigned this novel as required reading. As a former teacher, (no, I didn’t teach Paige!) I often dealt with students who didn’t have sufficient social exposure to realize when their behavior was unacceptable. Paige’s writing is a very readable revelation, without being “preachy,” about teen social interactions going awry.