DC Superheroes Coming To Spotify
Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have signed a multi-year deal with Spotify, the music streaming and media services provider. So we can look forward to original scripted DC podcasts about their superheroes/villains and Warner Bros.-based original scripted podcast series for their properties, which include shows like Supernatural and cartoon characters like Looney Tunes. Would listen to a half-hour show of Bugs Bunny chewing on a carrot, pondering life.
Stacey Abrams Voting Rights Documentary
Stacey Abrams, politician, lawyer, and author, has sold the rights to an upcoming documentary on voting rights to Amazon Studios. The docufilm will be available on Amazon Prime later this year, after a theatrical release. In the meantime we have two nonfiction books by Abrams: Lead from the Outside; Our Time Is Now. And she has romantic suspense novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery.
My Batman
Michael Keaton (forever my Batman) will star in and executive produce an upcoming adaptation of Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America. The book will be adapted into a Hulu eight-episode limited series set to premiere in 2021. “Keaton will play Samuel Finnix, an old-school doctor who approaches his practice with kindness and compassion, but finds himself embroiled in Big Pharma’s deadly secret.”
Celebrated Children’s Book Illustrator Graces Two Magazines