Screenwriter Scott Moore (The Hangover, Unhealthy Mothers) has offered a novel — each to a writer and to a TV studio for improvement.
MGM Tv has optioned Moore’s debut novel, The Mad Widows, for improvement as a possible sequence. Suzanne Todd, who produced the 2 Unhealthy Mothers films, will develop and government produce the mission below her first-look deal on the studio.
James Melia of Simon & Schuster’s imprint Gallery Books acquired the novel after a aggressive public sale; it’s scheduled to be revealed in March 2027. Following the sale, the e-book was shopped in Hollywood, with Todd coming aboard and the mission touchdown at MGM TV for improvement.
The Mad Widows follows a bunch of ladies who turn out to be buddies by way of a bereavement class, solely to find that certainly one of their late husbands won’t truly be useless. The revelation launches them right into a reverse homicide thriller as they race to find out whether or not he faked his loss of life — whereas attempting to not get killed themselves.
“Talking to my friends who are widows (I have more than one, terrible but true), it became clear there was one thing they all wished for: that their husband wasn’t actually dead,” stated Moore. “So what if he wasn’t? How would that even work? The more I thought about a widow turning detective to find out, the more I wanted to write the story for them.”
Moore and Jon Lucas co-wrote The Hangover, and the pair wrote and directed Unhealthy Mothers and its sequel A Unhealthy Mothers Christmas. Their credit additionally embody Workplace Christmas Social gathering, the 2014 ABC sequence Mixology and Ghosts of Girlfriends Previous.
Moore is repped by UTA and Sloane Provide.
