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EXCLUSIVE: David Guggenheim, who scripted the hit Universal Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds thriller Safe House, has just landed a deal to co-write his first novel. Exile will be published by Little, Brown imprint Mulholland Books in 2013. Guggenheim will collaborate with Nick Mennuti. The writers met while they matriculated in the Dramatic Writing department of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Guggenheim describes Exile as “a fast-paced, Hitchcock-esque thriller about an American businessman living in exile in Cambodia, who gets mistaken for a mysterious government operative,” he said. “It’s an idea that I’ve wanted to bring to life for a long time and I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Nick.” Both were repped by Jonah Straus at Straus Literary, and Guggenheim is repped on the feature side by Paradigm’s David Boxerbaum and Madhouse’s Adam Kolbrenner. Mulholland Books senior editor John Schoenfelder will edit the book.
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I am fed up with people getting ahead in this world purely based on looks.
Good work Schoenfelder!
I still prefer that draft of Safe House setting in Brazil.
Guggenheim is my hero.
Not to be a hater, but this was RT’s assessment of Safe House.
“Though Safe House is anchored by strong performances from Washington and Reynolds, they’re let down by a thin script and choppily edited action sequences that betray the film’s unfortunate lack of imagination.”
Hopefully the book allows for greater range…
Guggenheim isn’t going to write this book, any more than del Toro wrote the novels of the STRAIN trilogy.
Mennuti is going to actually write the novel. That’s how these “collaborations” work.
Writing a novel takes thousands of hours and is life-consuming, occasionally people in Hollywood “write” novels but they’re only parlaying their name into a contract and “collaborate” while another writer does the heavy lifting.
At least they’re being upfront about it in this case.