The Year's Most Acclaimed Novel Becomes the Years Most Anticipated Movie

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2004 -- It took Robert Evans less than 24 hours after reading Wedding Season to scoop up the film rights of the book. The only other time in Evan's career this has happened was "Rosemary's Baby". Actress Tatijana Shoan slipped him the manuscript after she and her partner Elizabeth Costa optioned the vehicle.

According to Evans, "It's the first book I've read in years that tells it like it is...when it comes to tying that all but elusive knot. Darcy Cosper is one helluva storyteller. Her unpredictable prose continually catches you by surprise throughout the story."

Evans will be producing the film with Shoan and Costa as his co-producers. According to Evans, "I'm no fool. Their female smarts will expose the real down and dirties that goes on in a woman's mind before she says 'I do,' and any guy who thinks he knows what goes on in a woman's mind is a guy who knows nothing. That's why Wedding Season is a guy's flick as much as it is a chick flick.

From coast-to-coast Wedding Season has become an instant bestseller provoking Random House to go into an unprecedented 8th printing after only 5 weeks on the shelves.

Putting Wedding Season on the fast track is Evans' first priority in getting it to the big screen within the year. He hopes it will be analogous to his flick Love Story, which premiered while the book was still #1 on the bestseller list. It has never happened again, but he believes Wedding Season will break the dry spell. According to Evans, "No price too high does an original bear and Wedding Season is just that. Now it's up to us to bring it to the screen."

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"Rated A. Crackling banter, vibrant friends, and pithy observations on modern weddings veil the tough choice at the story's core." - Entertainment Weekly

"Wedding Season is spring's best chick lit proving that saying 'I don't' can lead to a lifetime of happiness." - People Magazine

"...both sly and sharp. Darcy Cosper doesn't fall into the happily-ever-after trap readers of hip chick fiction have come to expect. A winner." - Publisher's Weekly

"Be ready for a new kind of happy ending. You'll love this novel." Glamour Magazine

"With the wit of Evelyn Waugh and the insight of an anthropologist Wedding Season is well-worth a trip down the (bookstore) aisle." - Elle Magazine