Maura Weiler

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Maura Weiler is a former director of development at 20th Century Fox, where she helped develop such films as Speed, Twister, and Minority Report. After vetting thousands of screenplays and refining the chosen projects with writers, she now finds herself on the other side of the desk as her adaptation of her debut novel, Contrition, undergoes development in Hollywood.

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The Lookout

Hollywood Wants Your Book

May 29, 2018

Hollywood wants published books and short stories for the same reason book editors want agented material—curation.