Columbia Pictures & Michael De Luca are in talks to option upcoming novel "Last One In" by journo Nicholas Kulish. "Ali" scribes Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson will adapt the book according to Variety.
"Last One In" is the story of a mediocre male gossip columnist who is mistakenly sent to Iraq to cover the war as an embedded reporter. At first he tries to get himself sent home, but after he bonds with the soldiers and shares their experiences, he emerges as a heroic war correspondent.
Though ityis a work of fiction, Kulish drew on his experience as an embedded reporter for the Wall Street Journal with one of the Marine Expeditionary Forces helicopter squadrons.
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