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Monette's Becoming a Man optioned for the big screen


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 Variety reports that independent production company Hyperion Studios has optioned Paul Monette's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story to be made into a film. British screenwriter Patrick Wilde (Get Real) is adapting the memoir about growing up and coming out in the 1960s.

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