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A Long Way Down for Warner Bros.

Source: Variety
May 3, 2005


Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired screen rights to A Long Way Down, the new novel by Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy). According to Variety, the film will be produced by Graham King, Johnny Depp and David Heyman.

Published Monday in the U.K., the comic novel focuses on four people who meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help themselves weather the difficult holiday period.

The novel will be published in the U.S. by Viking Press in June.

Depp is not expected to star at this time, though he does want to play a role in Shantaram, a drama at Warner Bros.