Apple Studios Land Cesca Major Roman “Maybe Next Time”; Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine produced

EXCLUSIVE: In competition, Apple Studios acquires the rights to Cesca Major’s latest novel Maybe next time. Roman is being developed by Apple Studios as an Apple Original Film, which is producing Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. The writer becomes executive producer.

There is a Groundhog day Element to this as a woman lives through the same day trying to stop her family and career from collapsing while trying to save her husband’s life. Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter will executive produce Hello Sunshine, and Ashley Strumwasser will serve as co-executive producer.

William Morrow published Maybe next time in the US on March 7, 2023 and the novel will be published in the UK by HarperCollins on March 30. Cesca Major is a novelist and screenwriter who has written several psychological thrillers under the moniker CD Major. Cesca’s titles include A thin spot and meet Amazon the other girl who was longlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger Award. Cesca has worked as a television presenter and teaches creative writing at the Henley School of Art. She lives in Berkshire with her husband and three young children.

Maybe next time is the latest high-profile collaboration for Apple TV+ and Hello Sunshine, which has the upcoming limited series Last thing he said to me. Jennifer Garner stars and EP in a drama based on the best-selling book. Also come for Apple TV+ and Hello Sunshine my kind of country, a global search for unconventional and extraordinary country music talent. This is the first series of competitions for the streaming platform. Apple TV+ has recast the lead role of Gugu Mbatha-Raw surfaceand the companies are also collaborating on the signature series The morning program and starring Octavia Spencer To be honest.

CAA brokered the film rights deal; Cesca is represented in the UK by Curtis Brown and in the US by CAA; Witherspoon is CAA and attorney Gretchen Rush of Hansen, Jacobson.