Gore
Columbia Pictures and Red Wagon's Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher made a deal for screen rights to "Sammy's Hill," a first novel by Kristin Gore, daughter of the former U.S. vice president Al Gore.
The novel chronicles the life of a young woman who tries to balance a job as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill with the desire to find the right guy.
Miramax Books will publish the book by Gore, who aside from witnessing the 2000 presidential campaign up close, was a staff writer on the animated series "Futurama."
"Kristin has a fresh new voice with a humorous point of view and it's obvious she knows the world she is writing about," said Wick, who brought the manuscript in galley form to Red Wagon exec Rachel Shane. "It's a well observed world of these young people beginning their careers running the most powerful government in the world, balanced for the needs that all young people have in their lives."
Col execs Matt Tolmach and Rachel O'Connor read the book over the weekend and the studio closed with CAA.
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