DEADLINE ANNOUNCES ‘TANGLES’ ANIMATED FILM BASED ON SARAH LEAVITT’S ALZHEIMER’S-THEMED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN WORKS FROM MONARCH MEDIA, POINT GREY PICTURES, LYLAS PICTURES & GIANT ANT
“Monarch Media, Point Grey Pictures, Lylas Pictures and Giant Ant are teaming to produce an animated feature based on Sarah Leavitt’s acclaimed memoir, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me.”
To read more about this exciting announcement, please go to: https://deadline.com/2022/09/tangles-animated-film-in-works-from-monarch-point-grey-lylas-giant-ant-1235122419/
Leavitt is represented by Samantha Haywood at the Transatlantic Agency, and the deal was brokered by Samantha Haywood with Transatlantic TV Film agent, Laura Cameron.
Praise for Tangles by Sarah Leavitt:
“Not only a spot-on portrait of the dark comedy and vast sadness that Alzheimer’s contains, the book is a fitting tribute to Leavitt’s mom.”
Vanity Fair
“The fabric of the Leavitt family is beautifully woven… In a scene with Sarah sitting beside her mother in the garden she can no longer attend to, Midge’s admission to feeling that she has lost all her own sweetness underscores poignantly what is at this memoir’s core — the observed and treasured remembrances of a gentle, vibrant individual.”
The Globe and Mail
“Losing words and stories proves particularly debilitating for a woman who was once so enthused by them — with her husband, fellow teacher Rob, she “built a life of books and art and creativity.” Leavitt responds in kind in this heartbreaking memoir…”
The Guardian