Date: 20 June 2001
By: Jonathan Bing
Source: Reuters/Variety
URL: http://news.excite.com/news/r/010620/03/culture-writestuff
Michael Stipe's Single Cell Pictures has optioned "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint," the first novel by Brady Udall who was recently included in the Village Voice's annual roundup of "Writers on the Verge."
The novel is a picaresque story in the mold of John Irving about a half-Apache youth who is run over by a mail truck. Shipped to a hospital he begins a new life that eventually lands him with a Mormon foster family.
Stipe and Single Cell partner Sandy Stern, who are shopping the book to directors before trying to set it up at a studio, optioned the book with private funds.
"It's hard to set up a book right now without a star or director attached," says Stern. "We'd rather ante up and option it, then decide if we can find a buyer for it."
The shingle's biggest production to date, "Being John Malkovich," cost $10 million, says Stern, and this project lends itself to a pic that's bigger in scope. "This is a self-contained epic," says Stern, befitting "an A-list director and a great movie star."
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Wait so they are trying to make a movie out of this book?
as far as we have read so far it seems that his book would be great for a movie because it is so vivid and the book really grabs you in with all the humor and action. already i feel like i have read so much that could make for great material for a movie so im sure the writer's of the script would have to cut A LOT out.
i think the book would make a great movie becuase it is a very original plot and the book already creates clear pictures of what is going on with the characters
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