
EXCLUSIVE: Using his own money, producer Scott Rudin has acquired screen rights to The Marriage Plot, the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides that was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The novel is a love triangle about three Brown graduates in the early 1980s who wrestle with love, religion and coming of age. Eugenides previously wrote The Virgin Suicides and won the Pulitzer for Middlesex. Rudin produced the upcoming Oscar season films the David Fincher-directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the Stephen Daldry-directed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He’s producing with Joel and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis, which begins production shortly. The author is repped by CAA and Janklow & Nesbit.


of course he does!
Scott Rudin is the only producer with any taste or aptitude in films today. Too bad he’s such a horrible human being. Such is the movie business.
The writers and directors that work with Scott love the process and work with him over and over again. Maybe he just has no tolerance for stupid people.
Many extremely intelligent, hard working people have been the target of Scott’s random ire. Just because he has good taste does not mean that he is not a sadistic, cruel person with severe anger management issues.
I just finished this book. A true piece of art. Scott will do it justice.
…where the book will undoubtedly collect dust on the Rudin bookshelves. Read this and doesn’t feel like a movie.
I’m on page 102 and while I am enjoying it I am not sure how adaptable this is.
“Horrible human being” usually goes hand in hand with people in an industry often full of themself.