Daniel Lagana will adapt the young-adult book “Spanking Shakespeare” for Paramount Pictures.
Based on the debut novel by New York-based eighth-grade teacher Jake Wizner, the story centers on Shakespeare Shapiro, who chronicles every mortifying detail of his quest to get into college and find a girlfriend in his memoir.
“Spanking Shakespeare,” which was published in paperback in October, will be released under Paramount’s MTV Films label.
