EXCLUSIVE: After repping New York Occasions bestselling writer Casey Sherman for publishing for a few years, UTA has expanded the connection, transferring to rep him in all areas.
The writer of 18 books, Sherman is finest identified for titles like The Best Hours — Disney’s motion thriller at sea, starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster — and Boston Sturdy, which was tailored into the movie Patriots Day, starring Mark Wahlberg, by CBS Movies.
A USA In the present day and Los Angeles Occasions bestseller, his newest guide, A Homicide in Hollywood, chronicles the lethal love affair between display legend Lana Turner and her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. As we had been first to report, that title is now in improvement as a characteristic with a pair of Oscar nominees, screenwriter Terence Winter (Wolf of Wall Road) and producer Rachel Winter (Dallas Patrons Membership).
Sherman’s bestseller 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Struggle for Redemption, co-written with Dave Wedge, has been picked up for improvement as a scripted restricted collection by Oscar nominees Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson (The Fighter). Moreover, his guide Helltown, a couple of serial homicide case on Cape Cod, is at present in improvement with Academy Award winner Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Entrance) on board to direct, Oscar Isaac locked for the position of writer Kurt Vonnegut, and Staff Downey set to supply.
Beforehand, Sherman co-wrote and produced Looking Whitey, the stage adaptation of his guide about Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, starring Yellowstone‘s Neal McDonough. He additionally wrote the screenplay for Turk, a film primarily based on the rise, fall and redemption story of Nineteen Seventies Boston Bruins hockey star Derek Sanderson, and co-wrote the screenplay for Ice Bucket Problem, a film primarily based on his guide about Pete Frates, the ALS affected person who sparked a worldwide social media phenomenon in 2014. Each initiatives are nonetheless in improvement.
Sherman can be the co-host of the true crime podcast Saints, Sinners and Serial Killers, alongside Wedge. Presently, he’s engaged on a docuseries chronicling his groundbreaking re-investigation of the Boston Strangler case with producer-director Paul Lima.
Sherman’s subsequent guide, Blood within the Water, chronicling the Nathan Carman homicide case, might be launched by Sourcebooks in 2025. The multi-hyphenate continues to be repped by legal professional Joel VanderKloot.
