EXCLUSIVE: In an extremely competitive situation, PICTURESTART acquired the rights to Carrie Soto is Back, the 2022 novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six.
Carrie Soto is a top tennis player whose determination to win at all costs has kept her from winning popularity contests. When she hangs up her racket and retires, she will be considered the greatest player the world has ever seen. Six years later, her world record was stolen by a ruthless, beautiful player named Nicki Chan.
So, at the tennis age of 37, Carrie makes the monumental decision to retire and be coached by her father for one final year in which she hopes to regain her record. Her on-again, off-again boyfriend comes to complicate her life even more. The novel was published by Ballantine Books last August and debuted at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. He won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for historical novels.
Carrie Soto is Back is Reid’s latest novel, completing a series of four related books, all featuring iconoclastic famous women, each in development or already adapted for the screen. PICTURESTART by Erik Feig used its own resources to flourish a piece of that writing. Series adaptation Daisy Jones & The Six topped Amazon Prime Video’s top 10 list in the US, alongside the show’s concurrent debut album, Aurora. This disc reached #1 in the US on iTunes. Other notable novels by Reid include Malibu Rising, The Seven Mans of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Lifetime, After I Do and Forever, Interrupted. She is repped by WME, Circle of Confusion, Park & Fine and Goodman, Genow.
Source: Deadline
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