Variety
reports that openly gay
Quills
writer Doug Wright is set to adapt Donald E. Westlake's comic crime novel
Bad News
for director Milos Forman (
Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt
). Wright recently completed
The Burial,
a novel about a professional thief who gets involved in a grave-robbing scam. "Incredibly, it's almost a French farce," says Wright. "But instead of doors slamming, it's grave swapping, you know?" His new play,
Unwrap Your Candy,
opens off-Broadway on October 8.
