FUNNY STORY
In Development
A shimmering, joyful tale about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common,” Funny Story” follows Daphne, a children’s librarian coping with her broken engagement to Peter, who realized too late that he loved his childhood best friend, Petra. Stranded in her ex’s lakeside hometown, Daphne becomes roommates with Petra’s ex, Miles, and despite their differences, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan to get back at…or with their exes.
WRITTEN BY: Emily Henry
BASED ON: FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry
PRODUCERS: Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett, Alexander Black, Natalie Sellers
PARTNER: Lyrical Media
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“…we began taking meetings with potential producing partners for a Funny Story adaptation. This time I felt sure I was the best person for the job.
We booked a week’s worth of calls, and right toward the very end (if not possibly the very last meeting? I don’t know; it’s been a while, and I have a terrible memory), I came out of one particular meeting and said, “Well, obviously it’s them.”
And it was. I’d never left a meeting feeling like that before. Writing novels is a very solitary act, and I love it so much, ten out of ten, wouldn’t change a thing. But there’s a special and rare magic that can only happen when there’s a meeting of the minds, when you find people you’re able to create a shared flow state with. Honestly, my most joyous creative memories are from moments like this. I think about writing Hello Girls with my dear friend Bri… holing ourselves up in a snowy cabin, sitting on opposite ends of the same couch, and writing at each other in a shared document. I think about my modern dance days in college, choreographing pieces as a group, based on what felt good and right, in that shared space.
I love, so much, the feeling that when humans are together, we can become more than the sum of our parts. It’s like, instead of having two or three or four brains, you open up all these tunnels between them, and there’s all of this extra space. Artistic synergy.
I left that meeting, with Ryder Picture Company and Lyrical Media, feeling that space crackling. I came away from the call feeling not just excited, but eager to get going.”
Emily Henry‘s new bestseller “Funny Story” is her latest project to get the feature film treatment — and this time, the author herself is doing the adapting.
Funny Story has become the latest Emily Henry novel to get a feature film adaptation deal, and the author herself will adapt the book for the big screen.
Henry will write the script of her latest novel, which was published April 23 by Public Random House. Funny Story marks Henry’s fifth romantic comedy book in four years.
Henry’s penning the movie version marks the first project of hers that she will directly adapt.