Love & Basketball filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood has scored with Fox 2000's I Know This Much Is True. Prince-Bythewood has signed on to rewrite and direct the project based on the Wally Lamb novel. Fox 2000 topper Elizabeth Gabler has been shepherding the project since the studio acquired it in 1998. Since that time, it has attracted high-profile attention from filmmakers and talent including Jim Sheridan, Matt Damon and Jonathan Demme. The novel spans several generations and focuses on identical twins, one a paranoid schizophrenic and the other a normal house painter who is trying to get his brother released from an asylum. The story follows their family history, what led to the illness and the twins' turbulent relationship. Peter Kang, who used to work under Gabler in her Fox 2000 division before moving over to Hutch Parker's TCF unit last year, is still overseeing along with Gabler for Fox 2000. Prince-Bythewood is repped by CAA. Her other directing credits include Disappearing Acts and Damn Whitey.
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