Miramax, Rudin Going for the Lush Life

Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) have acquired screen rights to Richard Price’s novel “Lush Life,” just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series “The Wire,” will write the script.

“Lush Life” is set up as a police procedural in which a restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on New York’s Lower East Side. One of the men winds up on the wrong end of a bullet, and a murder investigation reveals much about the city and the characters involved in a mugging gone wrong.

The novel debuts this week at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list.

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