Generation X author Douglas Coupland is to adapt his own novel The Gum Thief as a feature film after striking a deal with J.B Sugar's No Equal Entertainment. The Canadian firm has optioned the rights to the 2007 book and Sugar will direct the movie. The Gum Thief tells the story of Roger and Bethany, two Staples employees from North Vancouver with very different backgrounds; Roger, a middle-aged alcoholic dealing with an ugly divorce and the loss of his child and Bethany…...
- 2/1/2018
- Deadline
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