Overview
- Warner Bros. closed a film-rights deal for Playground, the Booker Prize–nominated novel by Pulitzer winner Richard Powers.
- Plan B will produce alongside Timothée Chalamet and Brian Swardstrom, according to the initial reporting.
- Chalamet holds first refusal to play the central character, per Deadline.
- The novel charts a path from the University of Illinois to Silicon Valley and the Polynesian island of Makatea, exploring friendship, love, and rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
- Plan B’s recent work includes Best Picture nominee F1 and the Emmy-winning miniseries Adolescence.