Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster will adapt Anna Johnston's debut novel The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife. Deadline reported that Netflix has optioned the book, which the screenwriters brought to them, and will produce through their Blue Harp banner.
Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster spent four seasons writing and producing Transparent, and were writers and executive producers on A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks, Netflix noted. They wrote the sequel to Maleficent, and adapted Jess Walter's novel Beautiful Ruins for Amblin and Sam Mendes. For Netflix, they served as showrunners and creators of the series Painkiller.