EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment has acquired Kevin Wilson’s short story Grand Stand-In to develop as a limited series, with Gretchen Enders (WandaVision, Queen America) attached to adapt and produce the project.
In Wilson’s short story, an unmarried woman in her mid-fifties takes a job as a “supplemental family provider” with Grand Stand-In, a company that facilitates matches for well-to-do couples who have lost touch with their parents due to death, disease or distance; but who still want their children to have the “grandparent experience.” It all works out until the stand-in has to disengage from a family she’s become attached to.
Grand Stand-In is included in Wilson’s Tunneling To the Center of the Earth, a collection of short stories. Wilson’s The Family Fang novel was adapted into a 2015 feature with Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken.
His best-selling 2019 work Nothing to See Here is in development at Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000, and his fifth novel, Now Is Not the Time to Panic, hit bookshelves this month to rave reviews. “I’ve been in love with Kevin Wilson’s writing since my sister first gave me a copy of Nothing To See Here, said Future Shack CEO Wachtel. “It’s literally a wish fulfilled to be able to work on one of his brilliant stories.” Enders added: “It’s not often I immediately spark to source material like Kevin Wilson’s Grand Stand-In.
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