Netflix in Talks to Buy Radha Blank’s ‘The 40-Year-Old Version’

A young secretary and aspiring writer's coming of age in the New York literary world of the 1990s is the subject of My Salinger Year, based on the successful 2014 memoir by Joanna Rakoff.French-Canadian writer-director Philippe Falardeau, whose Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for an Oscar and who also directed the Reese Witherspoon vehicle The Good Lie, tackles the material with more enthusiasm than efficiency, as his protagonist has to figure out what she wants out of life on both the

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Radha Blank's The 40-Year-Old Version, which counts Lena Waithe as a producer, has been picked up by Netflix.A theatrical release for the title is planned ahead of its streaming debut later this year.Blank, a New York-based writer with credits onEmpire and She's Gotta Have It, wrote, directed and stars in the feature about a once-promising playwright that is now a struggling artist at the age of 40.

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