In 2025, there are three months of adaptation to the books of Writer Harlan Cobain on Netflix – on Netflix – Miss youPolish adaptation Just a lookAnd CaughtSet in Argentina. Two more adaptation are in production, and their latest book, nobody’s Fool (Published by Penguin Random House) has just been released. The thriller he wrote with actor-producer Reese Widarsspoon coming in October is also.
“I can’t share anything about the novel,” a 63 -year -old Cobain on a video call from New Jersey, where he lives. “I, though I can tell you how this happened. We know each other. Reez has read my books. I have seen all his films. He said,” I want to talk to you about an idea that I had. ” Cobain was wondering how to tell Varpoon that it would not work. “I don’t cooperate on books or stories.”
But when star Legally blonde Cobain told his view, he was sold. “I said, ‘We can do this too’, and we started talking, knocked it forward. The next thing you know, I have got a pen and paper and I am starting writing. And after three hours, we like, we like, ‘Why don’t we try to write it as a novel together?”
Cobain says that Warspoon is the perfect companion, whose books have sold over 80 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 46 languages. “I don’t know if I will cooperate with someone else. Reese is so smart, and is also very good with people. She knows when I have to push. We helped each other be more creative. With Rease, I will probably do it again.”
Cobain says that he wrote most. “It was mostly about talking to him with thoughts. We made our mixed voice. We email or recite every day and talk about the book all the time. We are both obsessed with it.”
Actor and producer Reese Widerspoon | Photo Credit: Getty Images
Three shows on Netflix, almost together, are called Cobain, not by design. “This only happened. We were filming them around the same time. I am not the one who schedules, Netflix decided to do it for the year in this way.”
This is followed by a conversion of his 2023 novel, I will find youWith Sam Worthington Avatar Fame playing the role of a father who has been serving a jail sentence for the murder of his son. “We start making films in a few weeks for some time in April. I am excited about working with Worthington. We are also filming an English series based on our book. run away (2019), with Minnie Driver, James Nesbit and Ruth Jones. ,
Author’s sympathy
nobody’s FoolPublished last month, there is a case of screen inspiring the book. It marks the second appearance of Detective Sami Karsers I am a fool once,nobody’s Fool Was inspired by optimization of 2024 I am a fool onceAdeel Akhatar is one of my favorite actors and I wanted to work with her for a long time. We hired him to play the role of Kirs for the TV show. And as I saw him, I thought, ‘More stories have been found to tell this man. ,
One year after the events of I am a fool once, nobody’s Fool Get Sami in his lowest. “She has lost her job and is in insult. When she was 21 years old, she traveled to a college with some friends, met a girl and fell in love, as she is on such trips. One day she wakes up, runs to find her murder, and she runs away, who is teaching a square in a night in a night, she was killed all the years ago. There was an explosion in his world.
Every novel begins with an idea, Cobain is called. “Then I ask, ‘Who is going to tell the story?” So sometimes it is myron botter, one -two times it was wild [The Boy from the Woods, The Match] And now it is Sami. I am planning to write Sami again, but man is planned and God laughs. ,
While the tone of the novel is irony, like myon bottleter novels, Cobain is called Cobain, a slightly more damaged than Sami Myron. “He is more impervious and puts himself into trouble. I wanted it to be in the first person, which I usually do. I wanted to live in his head, he is a funny. Myon is a big, strong boy, 6’4” and more than 200 pounds, while Sami is very low and different things are channels. ,
A pracharak still from the TV conversion of ‘Fool Me Once’.
Cobain says that like Sami, actor Adil Akhtar, who plays him in TV conversion, of Pakistani origin. “Half of it is Pakistani and the other half is something I will save for another book.” Their perspectives are different, Cobain is called, because they come from different worlds. “I wanted the book to be faster and wanted to live with Sami and enjoy his company.”
Although he mostly writes in the third person, Cobain says that he chose a first-person story nobody’s Fool “Because I wanted it to be Sami’s book”. It was not difficult to get into his head. “I talked a little to Edil and talked to some others, and he read the book to ensure that I make no mistakes. My job as a writer is to be sympathetic – not necessarily sympathetic, but sympathetic. You should be able to see the outlook of all the characters who work,” he indicates.
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Published – April 11, 2025 09:30 AM IST
