Abbi Jacobson To Adapt Isle McElroy’s ‘People Collide’ With UCP & Killer Films
03.06.2024 - 19:49
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Abbi Jacobson, co-creator and star of Broad City and A League of Their Own, has found her next project.
Jacobson is adapting Isle McElroy’s book People Collide as a series with UCP and Killer Films. She will serve as writer and showrunner on the project through her Tender Pictures banner.
People Collide is a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises questions about the nature of true partnership.
The book is centered around Eli and Elizabeth. When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that he now inhabits her body. Not only have they traded bodies, but Elizabeth, living as Eli, has disappeared without a trace. As Eli comes closer to finding his wife—while learning to exist in her body—he begins to wonder what effect this metamorphosis will have on their relationship and how long he can maintain the illusion of living as someone he isn’t. Will their new marriage wither completely in each other’s bodies? Or is this transformation the very thing Eli and Elizabeth need for their marriage to thrive?
Published by Harpers Collins in September, it was feted as a New York Times Critics pick.
Jacobson is adding the adaptation to her dance card, which also include starring in Netflix’s No Good Deed, created by Liz Feldman and produced by Gloria Sanchez.
It is the latest project for Universal Studio Group’s UCP, which is developing a new take on The Munsters, adapting Elin Hilderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend for Peacock and has a new Cape Fear series in the works from Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Killer Films, which was founded by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, is behind