Matthew Quick

Miramax announced on Tuesday it has “won the bid to option” film rights for Matthew Quick’s The Reason You’re Alive. Allison Shearmur is attached to produce with Quick set to adapt the book for the screen.

A man must move home to assist his estranged, aging father – a Vietnam veteran.

Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, has a new novel in the works, the rights to which are already starting to turn heads on the rights market.

A man must move home to assist his estranged, aging father – a Vietnam veteran.

Emma Stone is now attached to star in Love May Fail, an adaptation of the novel by Matthew Quick, who authored Silver Linings Playbook. Mike White scripted the feature, which has now made its home at TriStar when it was initially at Columbia Pictures.

Logline: A conscientious student athlete is inspired by a book to get in touch with her wild side.

Both film and TV studios are eyeing Matthew Quick’s “Every Exquisite Thing,” upcoming in 2016.

The world’s largest book fair starts tomorrow, and studios are on the prowl for new material.

Logline: A conscientious student athlete is inspired by a book to get in touch with her wild side.

Logline: When a former high school basketball phenom moves to a violent, crime ridden town, he meets a player just as good and just as desperate to make it out as bad as he is. Their unlikely friendship may just be the answer to both of their problems.

Logline: Follows a woman, who after escaping her posh life and cheating husband, finds herself transported back to her childhood home where she sets out to reunite with a beloved high school English teacher who retired after a horrific event in the classroom.

Logline: A high school senior must secretly live in the back of a school bus when her mother’s boyfriend kicks them out.

Logline: On his birthday, a young man decides to say goodbye to the four people who mean the most to him and then kill his best friend before claiming his own life.

Logline: The story follows the intertwined lives of four people, who are all outsiders in their own right. However, in the wake of grieving over pain and loss in their lives, they come together to form the most unlikely family.

Logline: A man who suffers a mental collapse is eventually released from a health facility and sets out to discover the silver linings in his life.