Garrett Basch’s Dive Wins Rights To Develop Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ For TV; Lauren Yee To Produce
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In competition, Garrett Basch’s new company Dive has won the television rights to Afterparties, the collection of stories by Anthony Veasna So that became an instant bestseller when it was published last year by HarperCollins.
The intention is to turn it into a half hour series, “a naturalistic comedy with heart,” based on the characters and anecdotes written by So about the lives of Cambodian-Americans.
Lauren Yee will produce. The author, the con of former Cambodian-American refugees, died before the book was published.Dive’s Rachel Foley brought in the project and will oversee on behalf of the company.
Dive will be executive producer along with Yee. The book is described by its publisher as seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, an expansive portrait of a new generation of Cambodian-Americans as they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.The author, who described himself as “a failed computer scientist, a grotesque parody of the model minority,” graduated from Stanford University, where his writing and art won numerous awards and grants.
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