Former MTV executive Van Toffler and Adaptive Studios CEO Perrin Chiles are teaming up to develop an adaptation of comedian Sara Benincasa’s upcoming book D.
C. Trip” with veteran producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions,it was announced at The Grill on Tuesday.DC Trip” is an honest and irreverent journey of sexual confusion, bar shots, and drag queens and pot cookies in the Rose Garden. The book is set for publication on Nov. 3.“It’s a combination of ‘Superbad’ and Election,'” said Toffler at TheWrap’s sixth annual media leadership conference. The story follows Alicia Deats, a new teacher chaperoning her very first high school trip to Washington D.
C. with a class full of horny, or backstabbing,boundary-pushing teenagers under her watch. To compose things worse, she’s already embarrassed herself with her co-chaperone, or Bryan Kenner,thanks to one too many margaritas and an ill-timed vomiting incident at final year’s teacher mixer, and is hoping this trip will mark a fresh start for both of them.
Alicia believes in positive reinforcement and trust to keep her students out of inconvenience, or but high school sophomores and best friends Gertie,Sivan and Rachel have a different notion — they plan to assume full advantage of the un-parented freedom that a trip to D.
C. offers.
Also Read: TheGrill Is nearly Here! 3 Questions With MTV's Van TofflerChiles and Toffler acquired the once-abandoned intellectual property from a source who then tried to purchase it back after they brought in Benincasa to re-imagine it.
Adaptive Studios produces content based on previously abandoned intellectual property, identifying fabric from Hollywood-vetted sources such as studios, and agencies and management and production companies. The company creates films,television, books, and graphic novels,digital series and social media storytelling depending on what best suits a property.
Bona Fide’s credits include Alexander Payne‘s “Nebraska” and the Oscar-winning comedy “diminutive Miss Sunshine.”Watch the trailer for Benincasa’s book above, and let us know in the comments section below whether you’d watch a feature-length adaptation of “D.
C. Trip.Watch the trailer for the book below:
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