Aziz Ansari is making his feature directorial debut with an untitled dramedy for Searchlight, based on the 2014 non-fiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by surgeon Atul Gawande, in which he’ll star alongside Oscar nominee Bill Murray, Deadline has confirmed.
Gawande’s #1 New York Times bestseller tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Details with regard to the film’s plot and the characters to be played by Ansari and Murray have not been disclosed.
Ansari wrote the script and will produce alongside Youree Henley, with Taylor Friedman and Cameron Chidsey overseeing the project for Searchlight. The film is slated for theatrical release in 2023.
“Aziz Ansari is an incredible talent and, with this script, he brings a singular combination of insightful humor and pathos,...
Gawande’s #1 New York Times bestseller tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Details with regard to the film’s plot and the characters to be played by Ansari and Murray have not been disclosed.
Ansari wrote the script and will produce alongside Youree Henley, with Taylor Friedman and Cameron Chidsey overseeing the project for Searchlight. The film is slated for theatrical release in 2023.
“Aziz Ansari is an incredible talent and, with this script, he brings a singular combination of insightful humor and pathos,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“We are all here tonight because this is an issue that involves all of us, and it involves America, and it involves democracy,” said Tina Bennett, the important literary agent whose employer, William Morris Endeavor, had rather hastily arranged last night’s sold-out (albeit free) panel at the New York Public Library, “Amazon: Business As Usual?” It was “a loya jirga for book people,” Bennett said. On the agenda was What Is to Be Done — if anything — in the matter of Amazon versus Hachette.The mix of seven panelists included some broad thinkers — not just Amazon bête noire James Patterson (a Hachette author) and outspoken Grove Atlantic publisher Morgan Entrekin, but anti-Amazon attorney Bob Kohn, “net neutrality” coiner and advocate Tim Wu, and political theorist Danielle Allen. All of them had something informed and levelheaded to say about the e-tailer’s increasingly aggressive drive to control publishing. And then there...
- 7/2/2014
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Tina Bennett has joined talent agency Wme’s New York literary division. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, current affairs, cultural history and "idea books." Her non-fiction clients include such well-known authors as Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point), Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Laura Hillenbrand (Seasbiscuit). She represented the recent surprise hit Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Yale law professor Amy Chua. Her fiction clients include James Carroll (Mortal Friends) and Lev Grossman (The Magicians). Bennett comes to Wme from Janklow & Nesbitt Associates, which she joined in 1994. Prior to becoming a literary agent Bennett pursued a
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- 7/23/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tina Bennett, agent to high-profile authors like Malcolm Gladwell, Atul Gawande and Fareed Zakaria, has joined Wme's literary department. Bennett has been a director at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, one the largest literary agencies in the world, since 1994. Bennett, a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, will work out of Wme's New York office. She joins Eric Simonoff, who left Janklow for Wme in 2009. She represents a bevy of popular non-fiction authors. Gladwell, a New Yorker contributor, has written...
- 7/23/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Breaking: Tina Bennett, a longtime agent at Janklow & Nesbit, has just joined the New York-based literary division of Wme. Bennett had been with Janklow & Nesbit since 1994 and was most recently a director there. Her clients include Malcolm Gladwell, Laura Hillenbrand, Eric Schlosser, Atul Gawande, Jill Lepore, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Peter Bergen, Lev Grossman, Tim Snyder, Terry Castle, Amy Chua, Matthew B. Crawford, Sheri Fink, Alex Ross, James Carroll, Eliza Griswold, James Risen, Tom Reiss, Patrick Keefe, Tim Wu, Fareed Zakaria, and many others. She specializes in narrative nonfiction, cultural history, idea books, literary fiction, politics and current affairs, and academic crossover titles. Bennett is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and serves on the board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
- 7/23/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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