'Coda' Director Siân Heder Signs on to Adaptation of Bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow'

The bestselling 2022 novel by Gabrielle Zevin was adapted by Mark Bomback from a draft written by Zevin.

The sprawling and ambitious story revolves around two friends who meet as children in Los Angeles and reunite as adults in Cambridge to create video games, "finding an intimacy in digital storytelling that eludes them in their real lives," the synopsis reads. "The relationship explores the intimacy, passion, and heartbreak of creative collaboration, set against the visually groundbreaking worlds brought to life by the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s."

In addition to covering several decades and cities, the book includes unique scenes such as sequences set inside videogames. It struck a nerve with readers for its creative approach to combining a love story over the years with details from inside the world of videogame design.

The film will be produced by Temple Hill's Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner, with Zevin executive producing.

"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" spent over 50 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 2.8 million copies worldwide including 40 foreign language territories.

Heder's first feature, "Tallulah," premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She wrote and produced for three seasons of "Orange Is the New Black." "Coda" was the first film to win all four major awards at Sundance, and went on to win the Oscar for best picture as well as best adapted screenplay for Heder and best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur. Most recently, she served as showrunner and exec producer of "Little America" for Apple TV+.

Heder is represented by CAA, ID PR, Anonymous Content and Mitch Smelkinson of Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP. Zevin is represented by CAA, Sterling Lord Literistic's Doug Stewart and Cohen Gardner LLP.

The news was first reported by Deadline.