Thad Roberts - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:37:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Ben Mezrich’s Book Proposal Already Optioned for Film Author Ben Mezrich‘s latest project is a nonfiction book entitled Sex on the Moon. According to the LA Times, Sony Pictures has already optioned the film rights to the book proposal.

Here’s more from the article: “The new film tells the story of Thad Roberts, a once-promising young scientist working for NASA who back in 2004 hatched a crazy plan to steal highly prized moon rocks from his bosses at the Johnson Space Center and sell them on the Internet. The motivation: wanting to impress his girlfriend.”

Read more about the incident at this link. The production team behind The Social Network — Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca — will reunite for this project. Mezrich (pictured, via) tweeted the news: “The cat is out of the bag, new book new movie same amazing producers and studio…”

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]]> Maryann Yin http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/ben-mezrichs-book-proposal-already-optioned-for-adaptation_b21560#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/ben-mezrichs-book-proposal-already-optioned-for-adaptation_b21560 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=21560 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:00:31 +0000