Then, the movie project became dormant, until Lamb’s agent, Kassie Evashevski, called him up in 2014 to say that, after 15 years, the rights reverted back to Lamb. Given the size and scope of the story - the book ran 897 pages in its initial hardcover printing - they tried but couldn’t reduce it to a two-hour-movie screenplay without losing huge chunks of the narrative. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the rights to turn the tome about twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, the latter of whom is a paranoid schizophrenic, into a feature film, but it never came to pass. “True” became a #1 New York Times best-seller. When Wally Lamb published his novel “I Know This Much Is True” in June of 1998, Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club. 22 years after being published, Wally Lamb’s novel ‘I Know This Much Is True’ becomes an HBO series starring Mark Ruffalo
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