Deadline recently reported that Universal Pictures has acquired a pitch inspired by the Ellen Shanman novel Everything Nice.

Screenwriter Karen Croner is set to pen the script. The project will be a potential star vehicle for Charlize Theron, who will produce with her Denver And Delilah Films partners Beth Kono and A.J. Dix.

Deadline reports, “The hope is for [Theron] to play Michaela, an advertising exec who gets fired and takes on the only job she can get, teaching life skills to teenage girls at a public school. Lacking in the basic social skills herself, she tries her best to school her pupils in what they’ll need to know in order to survive.”

Previously, Croner has written the screenplays for the TV series TV 101 and the TV movies Cold Sassy Tree and Scattered Dreams. Croner also wrote the screenplays for the films One True Thing and Admission.

In other recent news, a movie based on the popular PlayStation 3 video game, The Last of Us, is now in the works with Screen Gems set to distribute. Neil Druckmann, creative director for the video game, will write the script for the big-screen live-action adaptation. Check out the ScreenCraft post about the news here.

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