Halperin wrote the book when she entered the dating world at age 51 following the death of her husband. Darkwoods partner Anna Garduno brought in the project and will produce with Darabont and vp production Denise Huth. Darkwoods, which has a first-look deal at Paramount, is in development on "Foreign Babes in Beijing," a romantic-comedy memoir by Rachel DeWoskin, as well as an untitled Tokyo Rose project, which revolves around Iva Toguri, the woman falsely accused but convicted of treason during World War II.

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