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Hot Property: WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich Negotiations Story Sparks Major Hollywood Interest
Wall Street Journal's story about the complex effort that led to Evan Gershkovich's release is the subject of a Hollywood bidding war.
The story, Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich, by Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Bojan Pancevski and Aruna Viswanatha, which reads like a spy thriller, sparked immediate interest from top Hollywood players. CAA, which signed the WSJ earlier this year and is representing the paper’s reporting on the story for development, has been fielding calls over the past 24 hours in what is shaping up to be a bidding war for a screen adaptation of the investigative piece as a movie or a limited series. The WSJ feature involves a number of political figures, including the leaders of the US, Germany and Russia, government officials, the tragic Russian dissident Alexei Navalny whose shot at freedom was at one point tied to Gershkovich’s, and Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev who starred in the Oscar-winning Navalny documentary, with cameo appearances by a cadre of big names, from Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson to Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
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