Publishers Weekly is reporting that producer Mike Volpe at Topsail Entertainment has acquired film rights to Andrew Kaufman‘s All My Friends are Superheroes. The book was first published by independent Canadian publisher Coach House Press in 2003.
Coach House offers this description of the book: “All Tom’s friends really are superheroes. There’s the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she’s sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she’s moving to Vancouver. She’ll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom’s beside her, she boards an airplane in Toronto. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he’s visible, or he loses her forever.”
Kaufman is a writer, filmmaker, and radio producer. His writing has appeared on the McSweeney’s website. He has completed a Director’s Residency at the Canadian Film Centre, and his film Aberistiwith was screened at festivals across Canada and Europe. He currently works as a producer for CBC Radio in Toronto.