Overview
- Warner Bros. closed a film-rights deal for Richard Powers’ 2024 novel Playground, attaching Plan B, Timothée Chalamet, and Brian Swardstrom as producers.
- No director is set and casting is not finalized, though Chalamet has first crack at the lead pending development.
- Playground is a New York Times bestseller recognized by the Booker Prize and traces friends from the University of Illinois through Silicon Valley, exploring love, friendship, and the rise of AI.
- Plan B is also developing Powers’ Bewilderment with Black Bear, signaling an ongoing collaboration with the author.
- Powers is a MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award recipient whose The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.