Now that he’s finishing up work on cancer comedy Live With It, The Wackness’ Jonathan Levin has been hunting around for his next likely target. And it seems he’s found one in hard-boiled crime tome Little Girl Lost, which Universal has just bought.
Written by Richard Aleas (the pseudonym of TV scribe Charles Ardai – see what he did there, eh? – “Aleas”/alias), the book follows a private eye who discovers that his high school sweetheart turned to being a stripper to make ends meet and ended up meeting her maker instead. He takes the case in order to track down the man who killed her.
Ardai founded his own publishing imprint, Hard Case Crime, to get the book out on shelves, and has also written a sequel, titled Songs of Innocence.
Levine’s presence has us interested, but we’re also happy to see Scott Pilgrim co-writer Michael Bacall getting more work, since he’s the man Universal have set to adapt the book.