Tom McCarthy & Selena Gomez to exec produce 13 Reasons Why!
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Tom McCarthy is set to direct the first two episodes of Selena Gomez’s Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, from Anonymous Content and Paramount TV. McCarthy also will executive produce the 13-episode series, based on the 2007 New York Times bestselling YA book by Jay Asher.
McCarthy and Gomez, executive produce alongside Anonymous Content’s Joy Gorman, Michael Sugar and Steve Golin, as well as Gomez’s mother Mandy Teefey and producer Kristel Laiblin who, along with Gomez, originally found the book and brought it to Anonymous Content for a screen adaptation.
McCarthy’s most recent film Spotlight, which he co-wrote with Josh Singer, was nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (for McCarthy and Singer).
He is repped by Gersh. Gomez is repped by WME and Lighthouse Management and Media.
Girl leaves cassettes behind explaining why she killed herself. Arranges for them to be sent to thirteen different people (whom are all involved in the events that lead her to kill herself) in sequential order as sort of a chain letter.
