Fans of Sophie Kinsella would be glad to know that the author's best-selling novel 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' will be coming to the big screen soon.Sophie Kinsella, aka Madeleine Wickham, raced to the top of the bestseller lists in September 2000 when her novel 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' was published. To date, there are 6 books in the Shopaholic series. The entire series has been optioned by Hollywood.
Here's the synopsis:
The story is about 25-year old Rebecca Bloomwood who has a very boring job writing for a financial magazine. Her weakness is her shopping addiction.
When she was offered a hefty line of credit by a London bank, she blew the limits within a few short months, and begins furtively to scan her credit-card bills at work, certain that she couldn't have spent the reported sums. Struggling with her spendthrift impulses, she tries to heed the advice of an expert and appreciate life's cheaper pleasures: parks, museums, and so forth.
Eventually, Rebecca's uncontrollable shopping and her "imaginative" solutions to her debt attract the attention not only of her bank manager but of handsome Luke Brandon - a multimillionaire PR representative.
The lead role of Rebecca will be played by Isla Fisher. Isla is a former soap opera star who managed to break into mainstream Hollywood movies recently with roles in 'Wedding Crashers', 'The Lookout' and 'Definitely, Maybe'. Hugh Dancy ('Blood And Chocolate') will play the romantic lead role.
John Goodman, Joan Cusack and Krysten Ritter co-stars.
The romantic comedy will be directed by PJ Hogan and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
The following are some other novels which will be made to movies:
- PS I Love You (Cecelia Ahern)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Nim's Island (Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard)
- Marley and Me (John Grogan)
- jPod (Douglas Coupland)
- The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho and Alan R. Clarke)
- Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
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