Tobias Iaconis & Mikki Daughtry Tapped To Script Monarch Media's ‘A Walk To Remember' Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis (Five Feet Apart) have been set as the writers for A Walk to Remember, Monarch Media's Nicholas Sparks reboot on which we were first to report in February.
A seminal coming-of-age romance, published in 1999, A Walk to Remember follows a rebellious high school senior who falls for a quiet, faith-driven girl after being forced to participate in a school play, discovering the transformative power of love, forgiveness and the beauty of living each day with purpose.
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Warner Bros previously adapted the book in 2002, with leads Shane West and Mandy Moore breaking out off of their lead performances. The Adam Shankman pic remains one of the most popular in the modern rom-com canon, even if it made less than $48 million in theaters.
Steve Barnett, Alan Powell and Vicky Patel are producing the reboot through Monarch Media, along with the original film's producers Denise Di Novi and Hunt Lowry, as well as Margaret French-Isaac through Di Novi Pictures and Patty Reed through Lowry's Roserock Films.
Best known for writing Lionsgate's hit YA romance Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, Daughtry and Iaconis were also behind the Netflix family adventure film Nightbooks and Warner Bros' horror flick The Curse of La Llorona.
Daughtry is also a New York Times bestselling author, having penned All This Time, and co-authored, with Iaconis and Rachael Lippincott, the #1 bestseller Five Feet Apart — which was adapted from Daughtry and Iaconis' screenplay of the same name.
Daughtry's next novel, Time After Time, is slated for release through Putnam Young Readers next week. She and Iaconis are repped by Verve, Lit Entertainment Group, and McKuin, Frankel, Whitehead.
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