Huge Movie News! You're Gonna Die, I Swear.

Here's big news from OnRamper Karen Quinn:

June 27, 2008

Dear Friends,

I am so excited to give you the following news. But wait, why hear it from me when you can hear it from People.com.

Sarah Jessica Parker: Single in the City Again?

By Stephen M. Silverman
Originally posted Thursday June 26, 2008 10:50 AM EDT

Taking Carrie Bradshaw to the big screen proved a shrewd move for Sarah Jessica Parker – the Sex and the City movie’s so far raked in more than $300 million – and now she’s eyeing the role of another single urban professional.

The star, 43, is in discussions with Warner Bros. about a screen version of novelist Karen Quinn’s The Ivy Chronicles*, described by the Hollywood Reporter as an up-to-date take about class and the single woman in Manhattan – though unlike Bradshaw, title character Ivy Ames moves out of the Upper East Side after the double whammy of a job loss and a divorce.

She has to withdraw her children from their expensive private school, though they also provide her with a eureka moment: Ames starts a service to help women land their kids in upper-crust kindergartens.

The trade paper likens The Ivy Chronicles to The Devil Wears Prada meets The Nanny Diaries, with a dash of the TV mini-series The Starter Wife thrown in.

Jerry Weintraub, the honcho behind the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, is poised to produce.

*Whoo Hoo!!! Yipee Yi Aye!!! Go Karen, it’s your barfday!!!! Yee Ha!!

For a long time, Ivy was supposed to be played by Catherine Zeta Jones, but due to scheduling conflicts/creative differences/outrageous demands for bowls of M&M’s with all the browns removed (choose one), she isn’t doing the project. Still, I am grateful to her for finding the book in the first place, and getting Jerry Weintraub and Warner Brothers involved in the project.

Stay tuned...

Karen Quinn

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