Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin (“No Country for Old Men”) have acquired screen rights to the Richard Price novel “Lush Life” reports Variety.
“Lush Life” is set up as a police procedural in which a restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on New York’s Lower East Side.
One of the men winds up on the wrong end of a bullet, and a murder investigation reveals much about the city and the characters involved in a mugging gone wrong.
Price, who will adapt his own work, recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series “The Wire”.
