Amy Adams’ Bond Group, Linden Productions, 51 Entertainment And Seaview Adapting Eliza Kennedy’s ‘Lucky Night’ For The Stage

EXCLUSIVE: Bond Group Entertainment, Linden Productions, 51 Entertainment and Seaview have acquired rights to Eliza Kennedy’s Lucky Night ahead of its anticipated March 25, 2025 sale date from Crown Publishing Group. Kennedy will adopt the novel as an original play.

Lucky Night is centered on Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish, who will finally spend their first night together after maintaining an ongoing six-year affair. Expectations are running high for this brief reprieve from ordinary life, where they both need a good bout of ravishing sex and witty conversation. But of course, that’s not what they get. As they barely get settled in a new luxury Manhattan hotel, a smoke alarm goes off. The reality of their situation becomes apparent, and all their secrets, evasions and regrets come spilling out. Stripped of their defenses, Nick and Jenny are forced to be honest — with each other and themselves— about what they want, where they’ve screwed up, and whether their affair is really as casual as it seems.

Kennedy’s previous bestselling work includes I Take You and Do This for Me, which has also been optioned by Material Pictures and in development. Her nonfiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, Real Simple and Cosmopolitan. A graduate of the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, she is represented by WME, Management 360, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.

Bond Group most recently produced the Searchlight Pictures drama Nightbitch starring Amy Adams, who founded Bond Group. Nightbitch is written and directed by Marielle Heller and earned Adams a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Adams’ most recent stage work saw her starring as Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie. She also produced the play, her first in London’s West End.  

Linden Productions produced David Adjmi’s acclaimed Stereophonic, which took home five Tony Awards including Best Play. It recently wrapped principal photography on Aleshea Harris’ directorial debut Is God Is for Orion Pictures.  

51 Entertainment most recently produced Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 starring Ben Affleck for Amazon MGM Studios, which will release theatrically April 25. Up next is Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, which Paramount will release on October 3.

Seaview most recently produced theatrical productions including Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster; Romeo and Juliet starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler; Hold on to Me Darling starring Adam Driver; All In: Comedy about Love by Simon Rich starring John Mulaney and Lin-Manuel Miranda; Good Night, and Good Luck starring George Clooney; The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth; and Stereophonic. On screen, it also produced Reality for HBO, and Stress Positions with Neon.