Amazon Lands Dark Comedy Book ’200 Monas’, Imagine to Produce (Exclusive)

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Amazon MGM snaps up dark comedy novel '200 Monas' for Imagine Entertainment to produce, in a high-stakes story of a college student hustling to sell her deceased mom's rare pills.

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Amazon MGM acquired '200 Monas', a debut novel pitched as 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' meets 'Uncut Gems', with Imagine Entertainment on board to produce.
The story follows a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's stash of a rare, mind-altering pharmaceutical, enlisting the help of a drug dealer with a heart of gold.

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Jan Saenz, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, Joyce Choi, Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Amazon MGM, Imagine Entertainment, Little Brown, CAA, Janklow & Nesbit, 200 Monas, Thirteen Lives, Judy Blume Forever, After the Hunt

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