DreamWorks drops Opal
The tragic tale of Kaavya Viswanathan, the juiciest – albeit most unpronouncable – New York book scandal in recent memory today sent its ripples all the way to Hollywood:
Per Variety,
“For DreamWorks, the scandal arrived just after the studio received a first draft of a screenplay by Kara Holden. Once Viswanathan’s school newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, revealed at least 40 glaring similarities between “Opal” and McCafferty’s earlier books, a promising project joined a Warner Bros.
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