Dreamworks has nabbed the screen rights to the upcoming book Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby’s First Year, by Berverly Hills pediatrician Scott W. Cohen (pictured). It’s perhaps not the sort of tome you’d normally expect would get a feature adaptation, as it’s a witty guidebook to baby-rearing rather than a novel, but follows hot on the heels of a deal by Lionsgate to turn the pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, into a movie.
It would seem then that Hollywood has decided nobody knows what to do with babies anymore and we need films about it, so that new parents don’t accidentally think they have to put their newborn in the fridge to keep them fresh, or shove them in the microwave if they need warming up. However Cohen’s book does include his experiences with his own firstborn, showing how much of what he learned in medical school seemed to be wrong, so perhaps there is more a plot there than you’d expect from a guidebook.
Eat, Sleep, Poop will be overseen by the producing partnership of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (Men In Black, The Terminal, Sweeney Todd), with the script being handled Four Christmases writers, Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson. No director or production date has yet been set. (Source: THR)