Lush Life Adapted for the Big Screen

Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) have acquired rights to adapt the novel "Lush Life" by Richard Price, which was recently published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, and is on the New York Times best-seller list.

According to Variety, Price, who did the script for the HBO series, The Wire, will also write the screenplay for his own novel.  "Lush Life" is a crime novel where a restaurant manager and his bartender walk a man home in New York’s Lower East Side.  One of the men gets shot and an investigation reveals things about the city and the characters involved in a robbery that goes wrong.

Richard Price’s novels "The Wanderers", "Freedomland" and "Blood Brothers,"  have also been adapted for the big screen.