DHD reports that Paramount has won a bidding war for screen rights to Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, the young adult novel by Joe Schreiber that sold last Friday to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as a two-book deal. Paramount Pictures made an aggressive bid that has Roy Lee as producer and will potentially involve Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage through their new Par-based Fake Empire banner. The movie rights were handled by Don Laventhall of the Harold Ober Agency. Irene Yeung will exec produce.
Schreiber on his book: “In this case, I started thinking about what might happen if John Hughes had been hired to write La Femme Nikita. Basically, Au Revoir is about a high school kid with a female foreign exchange student living in his house, who turns out to be an international assassin with a one-night Collateral-style multi-kill job in New York City before she gets sent back home. As the night gets progressively wilder, our teenage hero gets roped into driving her around whether he likes it or not. The idea kind of drove me nuts, in a very pleasant way, like a pop song that you can’t get out of your head…”
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