EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has fallen hard for Love Everlasting. The film adaptation of the comic book series written by Tom King has Room helmer Lenny Abrahamson attached to direct, and Jane Goldman writing the script. Emma Watts and Element’s Ed Guiney are producing.
King, the co-creator/EP of Lanterns and whose comic book work is the basis for WandaVision and the upcoming Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, co-created the Love Everlasting comic series with illustrator Elsa Charretier. It is described as a mix of Groundhog Day and Quantum Leap with sci-fi and horror elements. The protagonist is Joan Peterson, a heroine who begins in the mold of how woman are often portrayed in romance comics: with the major goal to fall in love. Only here, each time she reaches that plateau, Joan finds herself abruptly shifted into a new time period and setting with new obstacles and the task of overcoming them to fall in love with a different man. Finally, she begins to question what she wants out of her life and tries to figure out a way to take control of her own destiny, one that doesn’t necessarily require the love of a man to complete her.
Goldman seems a strong scribe to take Joan on that journey, as her work includes Kingsman, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and the Barbarella remake being fashioned for Sydney Sweeney. Post Room, the film that brought Brie Larson her Best Actress Oscar, Abrahamson was director and showrunner on Normal People, the series that launched the stars of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Watts adds another IP title to her growing slate that includes Shannon Messenger’s Keeper of the Lost Cities and Forbidden Planet. Both are for Warner Bros, with Brian K. Vaughan scripting the remake of the seminal 1956 sci-fi film.
Abrahamson is repped by CAA and Casaratto Ramsay & Associates; Goldman is WME and Independent Talent Group. King is repped by UTA, Charretier is repped by Rothman.
