Bona Fide and WIP to make ‘Beautiful Children’

Here’s a story about a book that took 13 years to write but approx took less than a month to be optioned. For those who embrace all life forms in Nevada’s sin city, then Beautiful Children might be the novel, and eventual film for you. Variety reports that Warner Independent Pictures has grabbed the screen rights to the project for Bona Fide Pictures’ Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa.

Less than two months into bookstores, Charles Bock’s debut novel has made it on the NYTimes best-seller’s list (read New York Times review here) and was very recently offered for a free download just last week – (Random House has left a teaser first chapter for us to read on Bock’s wacky website. 

WIP have set Eric Roth (upcoming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and another Vegas-themed misfire Lucky You) to adapt the project that Brock wrote for more than a decade – his “book shows the desperation of Vegas hustlers, something he observed while working at pawn shops operated by his parents. The characters are connected by the disappearance of a surly 12-year-old”.