Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired film rights to Martin Kihn's nonfiction tome "A$$hole!: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a F#@% About You" reports Variety.
Book chronicles Kihn's transformation from sweet guy to complete jerk. He hatched the unusual plan after being told by his bosses at the New York ad agency where he works that he was simply too nice to be promoted.
Kihn, who had just turned 40, watched as a not-so-nice colleague was upped. He proceeded to see a career coach, a rational emotive therapist and took up boxing to become more aggressive. Professionally his life improved, personally it became a disaster.
Studio snapped up the rights last week after eyeing Kihn's book proposal. Broadway Books won the bid to publish Kihn's tome.
