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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDavid Kushner, a bestselling author and journalist whose stories are often developed for film and television, will publish his next book at Substack.Kushner’s magazine articles have inspired films like A24’s “Zola” and upcoming projects involving Christian Bale and Spike Lee.

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has acquired film rights to David Kushner’s Vanity Fair article “The Church of the Living Dangerously,” with Christian Bale attached star and produce. Script will be written by Charles Randolph, who shared an Oscar with Adam McKay for scripting the Bale-starrer The Big Short, as well as the Jay Roach-directed Fox News Roger Ailes sexual harassment drama Bombshell.

EXCLUSIVE: David Kushner’s bestselling book Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb is in the works for the small screen. Independent studio wiip has optioned the rights to the book and partnered with The Gotham Group to develop as a limited series. BAFTA-winning screenwriter and director Amma Asante is attached to pen the series adaptation and direct the pilot. Emmy winner Thomas Schlamme is on board to produce.

Nick Robinson’s latest role is going dark.

Nick Robinson looks a little worse for wear as he’s tracked by the FBI in the first trailer for Silk Road.

article in Esquire by David Kushner from 2018, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, who previously wrote the musical “Passing Strange” that Lee directed a filmed version of, will write original songs and music for the Viagra project.Also Read: Spike Lee Collaborator Thomas Jefferson Byrd Murdered in Atlanta, Director SaysMatt Jackson’s Jackson Pictures will produce with Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSpike Lee’s next project will be a movie musical about the origin story of Viagra, Pfizer’s erectile dysfunction drug.The Studio Entertainment One film is based on David Kushner’s Esquire article titled “All Rise: The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra.”Lee is directing the untitled musical from a screenplay he wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah.