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‘Death of a Pop Star’ Film in the Works from Producer Diablo Cody and Wattpad Webtoon Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Diablo Cody and Mason Novick are teaming with Wattpad Webtoon Studios to adapt the popular Webtoon webcomic “Death of a Pop Star” as a film.

She has since written a number of films including “Young Adult,” “Tully,” “Lisa Frankenstein” and the now cult-classic “Jennifer’s Body.” Cody also created the Emmy-winning series “United States of Tara” with Steven Spielberg, and won a Tony Award for writing the book of the Broadway musical, “Jagged Little Pill.” Cody will produce the film alongside frequent collaborator Mason Novick (“Juno,” “Red Eye,” “500 Days of Summer,” “Lisa Frankenstein”). Wattpad Webtoon Studios’s growing slate of film and TV projects includes Rachel Smythe’s sensation “Lore Olympus” with The Jim Henson Company, “Chasing Red” with Stampede Ventures and writer Jessika Borsiczky (“Sex/Life,” “UnREAL”), “Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell” with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, “Freaking Romance” with Skybound Entertainment and A. Rasen’s nightmare-filled WEBTOON hit “Gremoryland.”

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