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Amazon’s United Artists & Scott Stuber Land Lauren Oliver Novel Proposal ‘The Girl In The Lake’; Scarlett Johansson To Produce & Potentially Star


Amazon MGM and Scott Stuber acquired The Girl in the Lake, a proposal for a novel by Lauren Oliver, for a film that could star Scarlett Johansson.

Verve, Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Management, Howie Sanders at Anonymous Content and Jamie Feldman represent Oliver. Resteghini, who has an overall television and first-look film deal at Amazon MGM, oversaw Oliver’s series Panic when he ran TV development for the studio. Stuber is currently producing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix, and Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed drama that stars The Bear ‘s Jeremy Allen as Bruce Springsteen as the iconic singer hit an existential crossroads and turned it into the seminal album Nebraska.

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