Miramax

Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel Lush Life, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Mr. Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series The Wire, will write the script, with a "mid-six against seven figures" deal, according to Variety.

In the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani's March 8 review of Lush Life, she wrote that "it is a novel that gives us a wide, 3-D Imax portrait of a small corner of New York City (the Lower East Side of a few years ago, at that hinge point in time, when young hipsters were beginning to push out the immigrants and the working poor), a novel that captures Manhattan’s magnetic appeal to dreamers and drifters, and its ability to crush the weak and unlucky and turn their dreams into disappointment and rage."  read more »