Exclusive: Lara Love Hardin’s memoir The Neighbor From Hell & Other People I Have Been is set for a small screen adaptation after Scott Budnick’s One Community acquired the rights.
The book is set to be turned into a comedy series.
The Neighbor From Hell & Other People I Have Been, which sold in a major deal at an auction to Eamon Dolan at Simon & Schuster, follows Hardin’s journey from opiate addict with 32 felonies to shot caller in jail to New York Times best-selling author and editor rubbing elbows with the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Oprah. The series will focus on her experiences navigating life, work, and motherhood post-incarceration.
One Community has invested in Michael B. Jordan’s Just Mercy, Aretha Franklin biopic Respect and Ben Affleck-directed King Leopold’s Ghost and was founded by prison advocate Budnick, who produced films such as Old School, Due Date...
The book is set to be turned into a comedy series.
The Neighbor From Hell & Other People I Have Been, which sold in a major deal at an auction to Eamon Dolan at Simon & Schuster, follows Hardin’s journey from opiate addict with 32 felonies to shot caller in jail to New York Times best-selling author and editor rubbing elbows with the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Oprah. The series will focus on her experiences navigating life, work, and motherhood post-incarceration.
One Community has invested in Michael B. Jordan’s Just Mercy, Aretha Franklin biopic Respect and Ben Affleck-directed King Leopold’s Ghost and was founded by prison advocate Budnick, who produced films such as Old School, Due Date...
- 9/8/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
John Hillcoat's The Proposition received the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for best narrative feature at the ninth annual Bermuda International Film Festival, which concluded Saturday. Pippa Scott's King Leopold's Ghost was named best documentary feature, and Lluis Quilez's short film Avatar won the M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award. Miramax Films' Kinky Boots, directed by Julian Jarrold, took honors as the Audience Choice Award winner. The runners-up were Lucinda Spurling's Rare Bird and Thomas Allen Harris' Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela.
- 3/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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