EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developing Little America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal Television. Written by Eisenberg, who…

Emily V. Gordon, who was nominated for the Original Screenplay Oscar yesterday for co-penning The Big Sick, has been set to adapt Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestselling novel The Nest for Amazon's film studio. It reteams Gordon and Amazon, the latter of which co-distributed Big Sick with Lionsgate. Jill Soloway and…

“A Pakistani stand-up comedian falls in love with a young woman who promptly falls into a coma.” This kind of elevator pitch would feel contrived, if it weren’t also based on a true story. But truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. As Emily V. Gordon drafted her screenplay for The Big Sick with husband Kumail Nanjian…

The Big Sick co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon didn’t set out to tell the story of their real-life relationship on film. “I actually was writing it on my own,” Nanjiani said at Deadline’s The Contenders event in Los Angeles. After learning from Nanjiani how Gordon was in a coma during the beginning of…

The Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani feature love story which was snapped up by Amazon at Sundance for $12M will hit theaters on June 23 in limited release via Lionsgate with a wide expansion on July 14. The Big Sick is based on Gordon and Nanjiani’s real-life relationship and both wrote and star in the movie which…