"The benefit of paying big for a hot book is that sometimes it draws the top-drawer talent," noted Deadline.com in reporting that Sony Pictures had optioned screen rights to Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project for producers Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan, "and the studio now has the 22 Jump Street and Lego Movie team of Phil Lord & Christopher Miller developing the book to potentially direct." Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars) are writing the script.
