Exclusive: Craig Bolotin is adapting The Vows for Universal based on Natalie Shutler’s August 2018 The New York Times article “Son, Placed for Adoption, Leads Birth Parents to Altar 36 Years Later”.
Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing.
Shutler’s article tells the story of 36-year-old Martin Schmidt, who just prior to having his own kids, decided to seek out his biological parents in Wisconsin, after knowing for decades that he was adopted. Schmidt’s parents Dave Lindgren and Michele Newman were high school sweethearts, and broke up months prior to Schmidt’s birth. After being reconnected via Schmidt, Lindgren and Newman fell in love again and married with their firstborn son officiating the wedding.
Bolotin’s numerous writing credits include Black Rain and the feature Fox adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Longest Ride. He also served as writer/director of the Forest Whitaker-Rosario Dawson...
Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing.
Shutler’s article tells the story of 36-year-old Martin Schmidt, who just prior to having his own kids, decided to seek out his biological parents in Wisconsin, after knowing for decades that he was adopted. Schmidt’s parents Dave Lindgren and Michele Newman were high school sweethearts, and broke up months prior to Schmidt’s birth. After being reconnected via Schmidt, Lindgren and Newman fell in love again and married with their firstborn son officiating the wedding.
Bolotin’s numerous writing credits include Black Rain and the feature Fox adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Longest Ride. He also served as writer/director of the Forest Whitaker-Rosario Dawson...
- 6/4/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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