Variety reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Sascha Rothchild’s recent LA Weekly cover story ‘How to Get Divorced by 30‘ and will use it as the basis for a romantic comedy:
The author, using the disintegration of her first marriage along with those of five other friends, posits it’s best to begin with a “starter marriage” before finding your ultimate mate. She lays out 15 steps to guide readers to ending the first marriage.
The U comedy will focus on a heroine who road-tests the “starter marriage” premise and then finds her perceptions redrawn by reality and relationships.
So … will the movie support her thesis, that it’s good to get the first marriage over with quickly? Or will the movie end up subverting her thesis? Certainly there have been many films about intentionally short-term or superficial relationships that end up being deeper or lasting longer than the participants expected. It’s a longstanding cliché, though I think it reflects a certain truth about the nature of sexual relationships, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the film took that route just out of habit.
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