EXCLUSIVE: Sony has acquired and tapped Oscar-nominated The Holdovers screenwriter David Hemingson to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.
Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli initially optioned the book and will produce alongside Goodwin and her Pastimes Productions partner Beth Laski. Deal comes just as the paperback edition hit bookstores April 14. The hardcover was a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller when Simon & Schuster published it. It was around that time that Deadline broke news that Playtone and 007 producer Broccoli acquired the movie rights for the book.
The epic, intimate love story between Goodwin and her late husband Richard Goodwin coincides with the direct involvement of each in many of the most turbulent events of the 1960s. It offers a singular path to look back at a
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