Amy Poehler Options AIDS Novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS

By: Dec. 13, 2018
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Amy Poehler has landed rights to author Rebecca Makkai's best-seller The Great Believers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Her goal is to adapt the novel for television via her Universal Television-based Paper Kite Productions banner.

The Great Believers is set in Chicago during the mid-1980s and in 2015 Paris. It uses the AIDS epidemic and a mother's search for her estranged daughter to explore the effects of senseless loss and our efforts to overcome it. Makkai's portrait of a group of friends, most of them gay men, conveys the terrors and tragedies of the epidemic's early years and follows its repercussions over decades.

Makki's book, which was published in June by Penguin Random House imprint Viking, was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2018 and shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for 2019. It was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and GoodReads, as well as the NPR Novel of the Year.

There has been no announcement of a network or a writer to adapt the novel.

Read the original article on The Hollywood Reporter.



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