Dan Kopelman, known for his work as a producer for Malcolm in the Middle and True Jackson, VP has officially announced that a new comedy film titled Book Club is in the works at CBS. Kopelman will once again team up with fellow producer Susanna Wolff to tell the story of a group of women who find solidarity in each other and discover an ancient tome that gives them mysterious powers.
Written by Kopelman and Wolff, Book Club will follow a group of “dispirited women” who form a book club and find strength and solidarity within each other, coming together to read a mysterious ancient spellbook that gives them magical powers – unfortunately, according to Deadline, “the powers are all the last ones they would ever choose.”
Along with acting as showrunners, Dan Kopelman and Susanna Wolff will also executive produce the single-camera comedy along with Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel for Kapital Entertainment and Wendi Trilling for TrillTV, with the film being produced by CBS Studios.
Inside ‘Book Club’ Writers Dan Kopelman and Susanna Wolff
Other than his work on Book Club, Dan Kopelman has a broad history as a TV producer, with most of his work being comedic sitcoms like Malcolm in the Middle (2002), Big Day (2006), and True Jackson, VP (2008). Some of Kopelman’s more recent works include acting as a producer on Jennifer Falls (2014) and the limited-series comedy Galavant (2016).
Susanna Wolff also has a history as a TV writer and producer, with her previous projects including the podcast series Eat Sh*t Kenny Daniels (2020) and CollegeHumor original materials like The Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey (2012) and Let’s Have a TV Baby (2013). Wolff and Kopelman have previously collaborated on Me, Myself & I (2017), a CBS sitcom series where Wolff served as a writer and Kopelman as a producer.
Book Club will be the latest collaboration between Kapital Entertainment, TrillTV, and CBS Studios, with other collaborations including The Neighborhood (2018) and another upcoming series titled The Bad News Bears.
More information on Book Club will likely become available as the series progresses development.
