The true story of a man and his family dealing with their parents’ serious illnesses might not sound like feel-good entertainment. But Dan Marshall’s upcoming memoir Home Is Burning is drawing favourable comparisons to Dave Eggers and David Sedaris, so it makes sense that New Line would snap up the rights, and snag Jonathan Levine to direct and Miles Teller as a potential star{
Home Is Burning recounts how Marshall and his four siblings joined forces to help their mother deal with a cancer relapse as their father struggled with ALS. Marshall, a recent college graduate at the time, even moved back into their basement from Los Angeles to provide care, setting up Team Terminal to battle the illnesses while still occasionally warring with his siblings.
It feels like natural territory for Levine in particular, who brought Will Reiser’s fight with cancer to life to great comic effect in 50/50. Like Reiser, Marshall is planning to adapt the book, out in October, into a screenplay.
Teller, who has just returned as Peter in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, will be back on our screens in Fantastic Four, which arrives on August 6. Levine is busy editing his as-yet-untitled Christmas comedy, which reunites** 50/50 **stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.