EXCLUSIVE: Bond Group Entertainment, Linden Productions, 51 Entertainment and Seaview have acquired the rights to Eliza Kennedy’s Lucky Night ahead of its anticipated March 25, 2025 sale date. The novel will be adapted for the stage. Crown Publishing Group will publish the novel.
Lucky Night is centered on Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish, two people who will finally spend their first night together after maintaining a six-year ongoing affair. Expectations are running high for this brief reprieve from ordinary life, where they both need a good bout of ravishing sex and witty conversation. But of course, that’s not what they get. As they barely get settled in a new luxury hotel in Manhattan, a smoke alarm goes off. The reality of their situation becomes apparent, and all their secrets, evasions and regrets come spilling out. Stripped of their defenses, Nick and Jenny are forced to be honest—with each other and themselves—about what they want, where they’ve screwed up, and whether their affair is really as casual as it seems.
Kennedy will adapt her book as an original play. Her previous best-selling work includes I Take You, and Do This for Me, which has also been optioned by Material Pictures and in development. Her nonfiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Real Simple, and Cosmopolitan. A graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, she lives in Hudson, New York. Kennedy is represented by WME, Management 360, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
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Bond Group most recently produced the Searchlight Pictures drama Nightbitch starring Amy Adams, who founded Bond Group. Nightbitch is written and directed by Marielle Heller, starring Adams and has earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Adams most recent stage work saw her starring as Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Wiliams’ Glass Menagerie. Adams also produced the play, her first in London’s West End.
Linden Productions produced David Adjmi’s acclaimed play Stereophonic which took home five Tony Awards including Best Play. They recently wrapped principal photography on Aleshea Harris’ directorial debut Is God Is for Orion Pictures.
51 Entertainment most recently, they produced Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 and starring Ben Affleck for Amazon/MGM, which will release theatrically on April 25, 2025. Following, they will have Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, which Paramount Pictures will release in theaters on October 3, 2025.
Seaview most recently produced theatrical productions inclusive of Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster; Romeo and Juliet starring Kit Conor and Rachel Zegler; Hold on to Me Darling starring Adam Driver; All In: Comedy about Love by Simon Rich starring John Mulaney and Lin-Manuel Miranda; Good Night, and Good Luck starring George Clooney; The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth, and David Adjmi’s award-winnning Stereophonic. On screen, they also produced the acclaimed Reality for HBO, and Stress Positions with NEON.