Jesse Eisenberg's BREAM GIVES ME THE HICCUPS Gets Picked Up By Amazon

According to the Hollywood Reporter, stage and screen star Jesse Eisenberg will adapt his short stories, Bream Gives Me the Hiccups, into an Amazon comedy. Eisenberg will also executive produce the project, alongside Ravi Nandan and John Hodges.

The twelve-part series was featured by McSweeney's in 2012-13, and focuses on "a privileged and precocious 9-year-old restaurant critic who visits different eateries with his alcoholic mother, reviewing everything, often with his friend Matthew."

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Eisenberg will next be seen in Zack Snyder's Batman vs. Superman movie, as well as American Ultra. Other film credits include The Double, Night Moves, Now You See Me, He's Way More Famous Than You, The Social Network, Zombieland and more. The actor has appeared off-Broadway in the plays The Revisionist, Asuncion and Scarcity; he wrote the first two.

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