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Production companies Trilogy Entertainment and Syntax Entertainment have bought the rights to the book. John Watson, who wrote 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, will pen the script. The rest of the cast and crew is yet to be announced.
I am Charlotte Simmons follows an innocent country girl as she discovers the cynical world of American Ivy League colleges. The book has sold well, despite a pretty hostile reception from critics. In Britain, it even scooped the Bad Sex award for its description of intimate encounters.
Article continues John Watson, however, is clearly among the fans: "Tom Wolfe completely captures the essence of college life," he told the trade magazine Variety. "He gets the language, he gets the characters. Jocks, nerds, co-ed dorms, frat parties, tailgate parties - he brings them all to life in vivid and often painful detail."
This is not the first time Wolfe, 74, has been adapted for Tinseltown. The Right Stuff, his non-fiction look at the American space race, was filmed by Philip Kaufman with Sam Shepard in 1983. And a version of The Bonfire of the Vanities, his satire of 1980s Wall Street excesses, was directed by Brian de Palma in 1990, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith.
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