American Zoetrope has acquired the rights to adapt Alysia Abbott’s memoir titled Fairyland, “a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s.”
Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will adapt the book to
a script and Sofia and her brother Roman will produce.
Press Release:
New York, NY (December 16, 2013) – American Zoetrope
announced today that it has acquired the motion picture rights for Alysia
Abbott’s critically acclaimed memoir, FAIRYLAND: A Memoir of My Father (W. W.
Norton & Company). Sofia Coppola
(LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE BLING RING) and Roman Coppola (THE DARJEELING
LIMITED, MOONRISE KINGDOM) will produce the film. Ms. Coppola and Andrew Durham
will co-write the screenplay. Mr. Durham
is a photographer who collaborates regularly with Ms. Coppola.
Praised by Alexandra Styron in The New York Times as
“a daughter’s compassionate, clear-eyed reckoning with the truths that defined
her singular girlhood,” FAIRYLAND is a coming-of-age story set against the
backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s, both
before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of
Abbott’s father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.
“I love the book Fairyland; it’s a sweet and unique
love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970′s San
Francisco. I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject
I’ve never seen before,” said Ms. Coppola.
Alysia Abbott said, “I’m delighted that Sofia Coppola
and Zoetrope are going to create the film version of Fairyland. Sofia’s
understanding of the feminine perspective and the artistic vision that she
shares with Andrew Durham make them ideal partners to make this movie. I could
not be happier.”
Published by W. W. Norton & Company in June,
FAIRYLAND was featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and was further extolled in The
New Yorker as a memoir that “doubles as a portrait of a city and a community at
a crucial point in history… [Abbott] remembers playing dress-up with her
father’s flamboyant friends, learning about sex and gender without a mother,
being immersed in art and creativity, and, finally, watching as the AIDS
epidemic decimated the life she knew.”
The author was represented by Brandy Rivers at The
Gersh Agency, David Davoli of Davoli Law Firm, and David Patterson at Foundry
Literary + Media. Zoetrope was represented by ICM Partners and attorneys Hirsch
Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman.
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