Sassy: The Film?
Web page Six hears that — weeks after we broke the information that legendary editor Jane Pratt had bought her memoir — two main studios are already circling the ebook for an adaptation.
We’re instructed that Tinseltown execs, maybe unsurprisingly, suppose her star-studded, rock ‘n’ roll-soundtracked story of a lady’s rise to the highest of the cut-throat world of New York journalism has what it takes for the massive display. And Pratt is entertaining provides.
Pratt based Sassy in 1988, throughout the rise of the grunge and indie scenes, protecting bands like Gap, R.E.M, Bikini Kill, the Lemonheads and extra, and befriending a lot of their famed members, together with Courtney Love and Michael Stipe.
She went on to discovered Jane journal, and after it was purchased by America’s most well-known publishing home, Condé Nast, she jostled with celebrity editors together with Anna Wintour, Tina Brown and Graydon Carter.
So there’s loads of apparent cinematic fodder.
In truth, it’s not the primary ebook about Pratt to catch Hollywood’s eye. We’re instructed a former assistant, Karen Yampolsky, wrote a roman à clef about Pratt, “Falling Out of Style,” which was revealed in 2008 and shortly optioned by Hilary Swank. (It by no means made it to celluloid).
Maybe the current launch of “The Satan Wears Prada 2” — the second installment of a ebook primarily based on Wintour, which did $320 million on the field off in its first week — has goosed interested by one other energy journo biopic.
We’re instructed there was a bidding conflict for the rights to the ebook, which we reported bought for greater than $500,000. (In accordance with Publishers’ Market, the client was Random Home and the tome will likely be known as, “It Occurred To Me.”)
