Amazon Studios has won an auction for the screen rights to Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty.
Akwaeke’s romance novel was sold in a bidding battle. According to Deadline, the book was auctioned “in the vicinity of high six against low seven figures, one of the biggest book deals of the year so far and one that was highly competitive. There were eight offers from studios, some with filmmakers attached. Jordan and Outlier Society’s Elizabeth Raposo chased it hard. Emezi will be executive producer.”
Akwaeke’s novel will be published in 2022 by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society will develop it into a film in partnership Amazon.
Here is a synopsis of the novel:
The protagonist is a beautiful Nigerian 29-year old aspiring artist in Brooklyn who loses her husband in a tragic accident. While she grieves through her art, her life begins to turn around when she meets a handsome new man at a party. And is given an introduction to a major curator who wants to launch her career in the art world. But even as romance takes her to a beautiful estate in the Caribbean, she struggles with the challenge of balancing grief with the desire to move forward with her life.
Akwaeke was represented in the deal by Verve’s Head of Books-To-Screen, Chris Lupo, and their agent at The Wylie Agency.
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