News > Buckley's "Boomsday" to be Adapted

Ron Bass, screenwriter of films as diverse as "Rain Man," "Entrapment," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," has been hired to adapt Christopher Buckley's recent satirical novel "Boomsday." Buckley is perhaps best known to the film world as the author of "Thank You For Smoking," which was adapted and directed by "Juno" director Jason Reitman back in 2005.

"Boomsday" centers on a D.C. lobbyist who finds herself in hot water after she half-jokingly blogs about a voluntary suicide program for baby boomers in order to reduce the strain they will put on social security when they begin to retire en masse (they start turning 65 in 2010). GreeneStreet Films is financing and producing. 

The voluntary suicide (redundant?) program is obviously a fantastic premise for a Swiftian kind of essay, but I wonder if the film will be able to sustain that momentum. Has anyone read the novel? 

-David Morgan