9:15AM Defamer Hollywood | As we eagerly await this weekend’s
Nights in Rodanthe to see if Richard Gere and Diane Lane can continue to make old-people sex as hot as it was in
Unfaithful, we got to thinking — Nicholas Sparks is a total baller. Sparks, who writes the standard romance novel fare that stocks airport bookstores, wrote
Rodanthe and has successfully pandered his schlock to production companies who have turned a number of his books into best-selling films.
The Notebook, arguably the biggest success of the adaptations, quickly became that movie girlfriends forced their boyfriends to watch in the hopes of emulating real-life lovebirds Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. But now comes the recent news that Sparks is no longer satisfied with hipster newcomers and wants to hit the big time, so he’s selling out and writing both a novel and a screenplay adaptation for a new film which are
specifically designated for queen Miley Cyrus herself. Sparks is a smart cookie and he knows women love his shit. So is he the next Nora Ephron?
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