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A film on the Obama White House is coming in 2020.
Deadline was the first to report that Likely Story has acquired film rights to The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. The bestselling memoir by Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, is a first-hand account of the eight years of the Obama presidency.
Rhodes book covers everything from the history-making moment when Obama became America’s first black president, to waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding in real time to the Arab Spring, and starting each morning in the Oval Office with the President’s Daily Briefing. All the while trying to maintain a personal life as a husband and father. The book was published last month by Random House.
“I wanted to paint a picture of what it was like to come of age during eight years in the White House, while illuminating the events that shaped our time,” Rhodes said. “I am excited to be working with Likely Story, Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu, who seized upon this combination of the personal and universal — the altogether human experience at the center of things, and the value of telling this story when so much in our politics and world feel unfamiliar.”
