It looks like Renee Zellweger wants to party, as Variety reports that she’s bought the film rights to Brantly Martin’s novel, Pillage, with plans to start shooting the movie version in the first half of next year.
Martin should know a bit about partying, as he’s a former New York impressario, who turned what he learned from hosting weekly nightclub event into a semi-autobiographical novel about four friends living in Manhattan who decide to rebel against their dead-end lives and over the course of several nights, find the best party in town. However this is not just some jolly rom-com tale, as Brantly’s stream of consciousness (it’s been compared to Charles Bukowski and Bret Easton Ellis) book details their desecent into drug use and vacuous excess with frank candour.
It’s not known is Zellweger will act in the film, as it’s mainly about four guys, so she may just produce, with John Krokidas (Slo-Mo) writing and directing.