Posted on 03/20/2018 7:35:32 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Former FBI Director James Comey, who was famously fired by President Donald Trump in May 2017, is considering selling the option to his hotly anticipated memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, which publishes April 17.
Comeys agents at DC-based Javelin, Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn, were in Los Angeles last week fielding pitches, according to a source with knowledge of the visit. A film or TV deal wasnt something Comey even thought about until a flood of people in Hollywood called and expressed interest after the book was announced in early August. Comey is said to be unsure if hell sell the option in the end.
Latimer and Urbahn met with agents, production companies and screenwriters to hear their pitches for the project, which involved both theatrical and television adaptations. Comey did not make the trip out last week, but if he decides to allow the project to advance, hell likely travel here sometime in the future.
Pre-orders for the book, which had been strong, took a huge leap over the weekend after Donald Trump attacked Comey by name in a pair of Saturday tweets.
In promos for the book, Comey is described as "sharing his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. They call the story an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
I am sure it will be as fictional as movie like “Truth” and “The Post”.
Oh good. Any profits made from his book and movie should go to pay the legal fees of all the people forced to lawyer up as a result of this plot to overthrow an election
Will Lois Lerner have a cameo in it?
I knew a freeper would come up with a cast list, lol!
The the all time gaslight of book titles.
Somewhere George Clooney is turgid at the thought of playing Comey.
A media whore. He was supposed to run the Federal Bureau of Investigations, not the Federal Bureau of Investments.
My late FBI senior Directors friends and acquaintances have spun so much in their graves that they have ended up in a cemetery in Kansas.
Oh brother. Comey’s such a narcissist I’m sure he’ll do it. And play himself.
Scene one opens with Comey in his prison cell................
If Comey were smart he would wait to see if he is indicted.
5.56mm
Let this idiot, moron, egomaniac, James Comey make an ass out of himself. Did ya see the Drudge Report Poll from this weekend. James Comey is far from a popular guy!!! He is naught but another Hillary Clinton who thinks they are God, but are nothing more then wasted scum & vermin humanity!!! End of story!!!
He hates conservatives. They hate conservatives.
He hates Trump. They hate Trump.
Comey lies. The movie about him will BE a lie.
Pretty simple when you think about it.
Maybe theyll pipe the movie into his prison cell.
“All the President’s Men, the Sequel”.
Obama makes the Nixon conspiracy look like elementary school recess.
I want to see the future edition of Comey’s memoirs. You know, the one that describes his 15-20 years in Federal prison. I would not buy it, or see the movie, but I might borrow it from the library some day. I would especially relish the chapters dealing with his existence in Federal custody, the high point of his memoirs.
Dang! Makes you think Teddy Kennedy could have got money for the screenplay of Chappaquiddick incident. Or Bill could do a movie “How to be a Sexual Predator and get away with it”. Or Obama: “How to give the world’s largest state sponsor of terror guaranteed nukes and billions of dollars” or....
Comey makes those other ‘RATs look like pikers!
Propaganda film just in time for 2020. No doubt.
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if he played himself.
He’ll win an Oscar if he plays him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.