And even more of our books are making their way to the big screen. We just found out today that <I>The Dangerous Book for Boys</I> will be made in a major motion picture:
By Gregg Goldstein and Borys Kit
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Producer Scott Rudin has acquired the much-coveted rights to Conn and Hal Iggulden's best-selling tongue-in-cheek manual "The Dangerous Book for Boys" and will produce the adaptation for Walt Disney Pictures.
The brothers' book offers today's coddled youth instructions in potentially hazardous activities; how-to's include building go-carts and making a bow and arrow. It also provides trivia, historical anecdotes and advice on life, sparking interest from fathers and nostalgic middle-aged men."Dangerous," first published in the U.K. in May 2006, has held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists since its May 2007 stateside release and sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. The Collins/HarperCollins release also won the British Book Award for book of the year. Its success has inspired two upcoming books, "The Daring Book for Girls" and "The Dangerous Book for Dogs," a satire by several writers from "The Onion."
The literary-minded Rudin, who has a production deal with Disney and its specialty division, Miramax Films, has scored mainstream hits like Paramount Pictures' "Failure to Launch" and upscale Oscar winners including Miramax's "The Queen."
His upcoming book-to-film projects include Sam Mendes' "Revolutionary Road" for Dreamworks/Paramount, based on the book by Richard Yates, and Miramax's "No Country For Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
In case you've forgotten, this was Dumbledore's pick.
