First Generation Films (FGF) has announced they have acquired the rights to the critically lauded essay collection One Day We’ll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter to adapt into a scripted half-hour comedy series which will be executive produced by the book’s highly acclaimed author, Scaachi Koul, along with FGF’s Christina Piovesan and Mackenzie Lush. The deal was negotiated by Ron Eckel at The Cooke Agency Inc. in association with Jeff Alpern at The Alpern Group.
Koul’s debut features a collection of sharp-witted, poignant, and often mortifying essays drawn from Koul’s life growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada’s Midwest, as she sheds light on the darkly comical aspects of gender politics, body image, cultural identity, and contending with Internet trolls.
A Globe and Mail bestseller, One Day We’ll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter was published by Doubleday Canada in March 2017 and by Picador in the US in May. The book’s US release landed it on multiple must-read lists including Amazon’s ‘Best of the Year So Far,’ and was just published by Penguin Random House in India.
To ensure the book’s razor-sharp wit and unique insights are preserved, FGF has brought Koul on board to write and executive produce the comedy series. A senior editor at BuzzFeed and popular contributor to publications including The New Yorker and Flare, the collaboration with FGF marks her television-writing debut.
“Scaachi’s singular voice is at once fearlessly bold yet incredibly vulnerable and she’s exactly the kind of artist whose stories we want to be telling. She paints such a vivid and hilarious portrait of what it means to be an outsider that we immediately connected with her story and think audiences will too.”
"I'm very excited to work with First Gen on bringing my book — and more pressingly, my father — to television," says Koul.
