![]() That must have resonated because Towles finally reached out - insisting on the very terms that Feig suggested. ![]() Feig told Towles what to insist upon to protect himself if he made a deal. That got him a meeting with the author during the summer, but no deal. Undaunted, Feig tried to find a connection to meet the author, and eventually discovered that his wife’s childhood best friend knew Towles. Towles didn’t even really want to discuss it personally, routinely turning away suitors through his agents at WME. ![]() A graduate of Yale and Stanford and the principal of a big hedge fund, Towles didn’t need Hollywood option money and was wary of trusting Hollywood with the book he’d always wanted to write. Feig was not the only one to knock on the author’s door, only to be sent away. ![]() This is what led him to Rules Of Civility, a book that has a ferocious female following. Feig, who as Summit’s production chief always made books a staple of the production slate before he took over Lionsgate, tells me that he makes it a point to find what books people are reading by asking everyone he knows, and by simply walking down the beach or watching in the subway to eyeball book covers. ![]()
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