British production company Ruby Films (Jane Eyre) has optioned Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir by Emma Forrest. Deadline.com reported that the book, in which the author recounts attempting suicide before "being saved by a New York–based psychiatrist who was secretly dying of cancer. It's Good Will Hunting meets Girl, Interrupted and 'it will make a brilliant film,' Ruby Films boss Alison Owen tells me. But the elephant in the room is that Your Voice In My Head is also about Forrest's ex-lover, actor Colin Farrell." The novel is scheduled to be released in the U.S. by Other Press in early May.
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We're not sure what this means for the future of civilization, but Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a movie version of Saddam Hussein's novel Zabibah and the King, "the tender tale of a wise and good Iraqi leader who falls in love with a humble peasant girl. Re-titled The Dictator, the Paramount-backed production will be overseen by Larry Charles, who directed Baron Cohen on the feature-length Borat and Brüno outings," the Guardian reported.
The novel was published anonymously in 2000, and it "is widely accepted within Iraq that the book was authored by Saddam, although the CIA later concluded that it was probably produced by ghost-writers, acting under direct instruction from the Iraqi leader," the Guardian wrote.