{"id":2044543,"date":"2025-09-23T20:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2044543"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:09:31","slug":"netflix-wins-rights-to-mitch-alboms-twice-paul-weitz-to-direct-film-adaptation-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-wins-rights-to-mitch-alboms-twice-paul-weitz-to-direct-film-adaptation-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Wins Rights to Mitch Albom\u2019s \u2018Twice,\u2019 Paul Weitz to Direct Film Adaptation (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0016880\/\">Mitch Albom<\/a>\u2019s latest novel, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4686646\/\">Twice<\/a>,\u201d has been acquired by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> in a competitive situation.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0919369\/\">Paul Weitz<\/a>, who recently helmed the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0366389\/\">Kevin Hart<\/a>-starring dramedy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4733624\/\">Fatherhood<\/a>\u201d for the streamer, will adapt and direct the film. Weitz will also produce the movie with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0583948\/\">Andrew Miano<\/a> through their company, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0113177\/\">Depth of Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be published on October 7 by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0363803\/\">Harper<\/a>, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4686646\/\">Twice<\/a>\u201d is a love story about magical second chances. The novel asks: \u201cWhat if you got to do everything in your life \u2014 again?\u201d That\u2019s the reality for Alfie Logan, who discovers the magical ability to undo any moment and live it again. The one catch, a synopsis of the story explains, is that he must accept the consequences of his second try, for better or worse.<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis continues: \u201cEventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Albom\u2019s latest novel, \u201cTwice,\u201d has been acquired by Netflix in a competitive situation. Paul Weitz, who recently helmed the Kevin Hart-starring dramedy \u201cFatherhood\u201d for the streamer, will adapt and direct the film. Weitz will also produce the movie with Andrew Miano through their company, Depth of Field. To be published on October 7 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2044543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Netflix-Wins-Rights-to-Mitch-Alboms-\u2018Twice-Paul-Weitz-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}