{"id":591046,"date":"2026-05-18T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:43:12","slug":"marc-guggenheim-novella-persona-movie-set-paul-feig-directs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591046\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Guggenheim Novella &#8216;Persona&#8217; Movie Set; Paul Feig Directs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/20th-century-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_20th-century-studios\" data-tag=\"20th-century-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20th Century Studios<\/a> has won a heated auction for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/persona\/\" id=\"auto-tag_persona\" data-tag=\"persona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Persona<\/a>, a novella by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marc-guggenheim\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marc-guggenheim\" data-tag=\"marc-guggenheim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Guggenheim<\/a>, co-creator and EP of Arrow and one of the architects of the Arrow-verse franchise. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-feig\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-feig\" data-tag=\"paul-feig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Feig<\/a>, the Bridesmaids helmer who is coming off the hit The Housemaid, will direct. Deal is for seven figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStudio is keeping the concept under wraps, but Deadline hears this is a Fatal Attraction-style thriller with a modern twist. For Guggenheim, it\u2019s his second seven-figure deal in the past half-year; he co-wrote and is executive producer on An Innocent Girl, a movie filming now and starring Kerry Washington, James Marsden, Chloe East and Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/colman-domingo-kerry-washington-an-innocent-girl-1236717457\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colman-Domingo-and-Kerry-Washington.jpg\" alt=\"Colman Domingo and Kerry Washington\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-devil-wears-prada-2-michael-1236877817\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MCDDEWE_WD008.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' (2026)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGuggenheim is also developing the series The Measure for NBC and Higher Ground Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGuggenheim and Feig are repped by CAA; Guggenheim is managed by Cliff Roberts at Syndicate Entertainment and lawyered by Raymond Tambe and Wendy Kirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has won a heated auction for Persona, a novella by Marc Guggenheim, co-creator and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[71750,6491,96,202237,54187,4245,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-20th-century-studios","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-marc-guggenheim","tag-paul-feig","tag-persona","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}