Sony’s 3000 Pictures Picks Up Lucy Foley NY Times Best Seller ‘The Paris Apartment’
04.03.2022 - 21:01
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ 3000 Pictures has acquired the film adaptation rights to Lucy Foley’s new book, The Paris Apartment, which became an instant No. 1 New York Times best seller after its release by William Morrow, a U.S. imprint of HarperCollins on Feb. 22.
The Paris Apartment follows aspiring journalist, Ben, who lives in an old apartment block, near the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. He’s moved to Paris for a fresh start and isn’t thrilled when his chaotic sister Jess asks if she can crash with him after leaving her job in London. But he didn’t say no, and surely everything looks better from Paris. However, Ben isn’t there when Jess arrives and doesn’t show up the next morning. Jess soon realizes that the block’s inhabitants are the only people that can help, but they are a dysfunctional, eccentric bunch, and not particularly friendly. In The Paris Apartment, the socialite, the nice guy, the party girl, the girl on the verge and the concierge are all suspects as everyone knows something they’re not telling.
Oscar nominees Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures (upcoming Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Emma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) are producing.
Elizabeth Gabler, Marisa Paiva and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures. Sony Pictures’ head of Literary in New York, Drew Reed, was instrumental in the deal.
The Paris Apartment has sold in over 40 international territories and recently hit shelves in the UK yesterday.
“I’ve always been inspired by film in my writing so knowing that The Paris Apartment will be coming to the big screen is a dream come true. I’m a huge admirer of Elizabeth Gabler and her work — she has produced