Warner Bros. Television a récemment remporté les droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle du roman BAD NEWS DADS du scénariste Adam Frost, dans des enchères très compétitives.
Greg Berlanti, connu pour Fly Me to the Moon, Love, Simon et Life as We Know It, produira la série, aux côtés de James Marsden (Paradise, Westworld, 27 Dresses et The Notebook) qui sera également producteur et acteur principal.
Voici une présentation du roman, dont les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles :
A hilarious and superbly plotted crime novel for fans of Richard Osman and Elle Cosimano.
BAD NEWS DADS
by Adam Frost
Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster, Summer 2026
(via Sterlin gLord Literistic)
The Bad News Dads are a recreational baseball team in Los Angeles—a terrible one, made up of a bunch of 40-something dads, several of them of the stay-at-home variety. Tired of the constant grind of packing lunches and coordinating school pick-ups, the team’s catcher, Ben, is looking for some action. When a teammate’s wife dies tragically, Ben and his two closest friends decide that something fishy has happened, and they blithely take it upon themselves to solve what they’re sure is a murder. But can they fall down the dark rabbit hole of a murder investigation without ruining their home lives? Without ruining their friendships? And without getting killed themselves?
Adam Frost was born in Vancouver, Canada. He is a writer, actor, and director known for Castle (2009), Extreme Movie (2008) and Tribal (2020).

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