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Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: books, Daniel Clowes, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lemony Snicket, Michael Chabon, movies, Philippa Gregory, Scott Rudin, Zadie Smith, Zoe Heller

It's a very New Yorker (orbit) Christmas. From the Book Standard:

Scott Rudin to Produce Film Version of Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty'

If Scott Rudin adapts one more book to film, the producer may become an official patron of the literary arts on par with Gertrude Stein and Queen Elizabeth I. Production company Film Four has bought Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, with Rudin and Alison Owen slated to produce, according to Variety.

Rudin is also currently working on film adaptations of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Zoö Heller’s Notes on a Scandal, Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and an untitled Daniel Clowes project. Past adaptation projects include Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), The Hours (2002), Iris (2001), Wonder Boys (2000) and Angela's Ashes (1999).... Read on.

I'm looking forward to the Heller movie, in particular—it'll be fun to see how far they're allowed to go with it.

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