EXCLUSIVE: Writers Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles, who won this year’s Nicholl’s Fellowship for their screenplay United States of Fuckin’ Awesome, just signed on to adapt Lionsgate’s White Girl Problems. The book, written by “Babe Walker” — who is actually the creation of brothers Tanner and David Oliver Cohen and their friend Lara Schoenhals — was bought by Lionsgate in 2013 for Pitch Perfect producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman through their Brownstone Productions banner.
Published by Hyperion in 2012, the book is a pseudo-memoir about a young woman with a huge social media following who melts down one afternoon after spending about a quarter of a million dollars in Barney’s and ends up in shopping rehab, where she decides to write about her life — of excess and meaningless problems. Brophy and Miles will do a Page 1 rewrite, scripting their own version of the bestselling yarn.
The writing assignment itself was a hotly contested open call for screenwriters. Brophy and Miles are repped by Paradigm, Circle of Confusion and attorney Lev Ginsburg.
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This book is garbage (and Dirty Rush is even worse…easily one of the five worst things I’ve ever read), but congrats to the writers!
They won a contest. Of course this is their prize.
These two are funny writers, hard workers and true sweethearts. Well deserved.
This title sounds a bit racist to me.
It is but since the target is whites, it’s all good because apparently you can never be racist against whites.
Racism is about control and power. Who in this equation is being racist towards white people? The white people writing the movie or the ones who wrote the book? Perhaps it’s the white people producing it? Never in modern history, have minorities had power over the white population. Certainly not today. I’m sorry your life isn’t what you’d like it to be, but be glad you’re white and deal with the frustrations of those who are not for they are not unfounded.
Cleverer,
Clever you’re not.
Primarily, by definition, racism is a belief in your own superiority.
Here, let Merrriam-Webster explain it for you:
1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2: racial prejudice or discrimination
Any race can be racist against another that they deem inferior.
That idea that you have to be in a position of power, therefore blacks can’t be racist, is some of that ridiculous Spike Lee nonsense.
And, no, just because I’m pointing out the error of your thinking that does not make me a racist, or that I’m better than you in any way.
Racism is an evil that must be wiped out, no matter what color you are.
The title should be changed to “Anglo American Girl Problems”.
The white people who have a sense of humor about themselves and realize which activities and complaints are typically engaged in by White people are always attacked by white people with a fragile sense of self and a persecution complex.
Next thing you are going to say is “Why don’t they make a ‘Black Girl Problems?’ Well, if you mean one made by Black people, as this was made by whites, there’s no shortage. Black people/minority comics in general make fun of their own race and its tendencies all the time. It shouldn’t be any more alarming when white people follow suit. It is because some white people are desperate to scrounge up any instance of racism, even when it’s satire, to pretend that they can even equate their own experiences with discrimination a little bit to the discrimination both overt and subtle that minorities experience regularly.
Alisha B. is one of the best… great news!
Sounds like Selfie as a movie.
Exactly what I was thinking. Good catch. And by the way, look what happened to Selfie.
I hate it when writers put profanity in their titles to draw attention. I’m sure the script was good but the title cursing is so played.