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.