Channing Tatum is set to produce and likely star in Sony Pictures’ adaptation of Two Kisses for Maddy, a best-selling memoir written by Matthew Logelin published in 2011.
It’s being pitched as “50/50 meets Steel Magnolias” and plot has officially been described at length as:
“Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Liz’s pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world on March 24, 2008.
Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation; he chose to keep moving forward– to make a life for Maddy.
In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz; of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided; and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. In honoring Liz’s legacy, heartache has become solace.”
Dana Stevens, who adapted Safe Haven among others, is attached to write the script. Peter Kiernan, Marty Bowen (Twilight, The Fault in Our Stars) and Wyck Godfrey are set to produce.
It’s not for sure yet but it seems pretty likely that Tatum will also star, considering he has a young daughter himself. The actor will next be seen in sequel Magic Mike XXL and has a whole host of projects set for next year including Hail Caesar, a solo Gambit movie (spinoff to the X-Men series) and 23 Jump Street (which will possibly crossover with Men in Black).
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