If there is one unwavering rule in Hollywood its that if Nicholas Sparks writes a novel, there’s a movie in store. Eight of his books have made it to screen, and now his latest, 2011’s bestseller The Best of Me, is getting the same treatment. According to a report at Deadline, things are moving fast as a director has already been found.
Warner Bros., who released the Zac Efron-led Lucky One earlier this year, has entered negotiations with The Last Station and One Fine Day director Michael Hoffman to helm the project. With his Gambit remake, which stars Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman, finished and set for a 2013 US release, the director is looking for his next project and this romantic drama could be it.
Adapted by J. Mills Goodloe, with a rewrite coming from Lucky One‘s Will Fetters, check out the synopsis below from Amazon.
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew — about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear — was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
Are you looking forward to this Sparks adaptation hitting the screening?