{"id":2420,"date":"2026-06-24T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:08:38","slug":"bad-moms-and-hangover-writer-scott-moores-debut-novel-lands-at-mgm-television-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bad Moms\u2019 and \u2018Hangover\u2019 Writer Scott Moore\u2019s Debut Novel Lands at MGM Television (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tScreenwriter Scott Moore (<em>The Hangover, Bad Moms<\/em>) has sold a novel \u2014\u00a0both to a publisher and to a TV studio for development.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2418\">\u2018Grand Theft Auto VI\u2019 Price Finally Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMGM Television has optioned Moore\u2019s debut novel, <em>The Mad Widows<\/em>, for development as a potential series. Suzanne Todd, who produced the two <em>Bad Moms<\/em> movies, will develop and executive produce the project under her first-look deal at the studio. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tJames Melia of Simon &amp; Schuster\u2019s imprint Gallery Books acquired the novel after a competitive auction; it\u2019s scheduled to be published in March 2027. Following the sale, the book was shopped in Hollywood, with Todd coming aboard and the project landing at MGM TV for development.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>The Mad Widows<\/em> follows a group of women who become friends through a bereavement class, only to discover that one of their late husbands might not actually be dead. The revelation launches them into a reverse murder mystery as they race to determine whether he faked his death \u2014 while trying not to get killed themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2416\">\u2018Dutton Ranch\u2019 Renewed for Season 2 at Paramount+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cTalking to my friends who are widows (I have more than one, terrible but true), it became clear there was one thing they all wished for: that their husband wasn\u2019t actually dead,\u201d said Moore. \u201cSo what if he wasn\u2019t? How would that even work? The more I thought about a widow turning detective to find out, the more I wanted to write the story for them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMoore and Jon Lucas co-wrote <em>The Hangover<\/em>, and the pair wrote and directed <em>Bad Moms<\/em> and its sequel <em>A Bad Moms Christmas<\/em>. Their credits also include <em>Office Christmas Party<\/em>, the 2014 ABC series <em>Mixology<\/em> and <em>Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2414\">Paramount Plots Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live Theatrical Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tMoore is repped by UTA and Sloane Offer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Moore, the co-writer of &#8216;The Hangover&#8217; and &#8216;Bad Moms,&#8217; has optioned his first novel &#8216;The Mad Widows&#8217; for development at MGM Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,783],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-mgm","tag-tv-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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