"I am going to try and get the timeline right if I can remember, but I believe when I became the president of production at Universal, the project was already here," he told Vanity Fair in an interview published Dec. 19. "It had been optioned initially by Demi Moore's company."
However, according to author Maguire, the book had been the focus of a bidding war among several actors who were interested in producing a film version, telling that outlet that Whoopi Goldberg "had expressed an interest in the first six months."