NEWS JUST IN FROM RANDOM HOUSE NZ STAFFER JENNIFER BALLE

HBO appoints Slumdog script writer to pen TV series based on Kiwi whistle blower's bestselling UN book

Jennifer reports:
Big news just in over the weekend for our own, Dr Andrew Thomson, who many of you will remember is the expat Kiwi doctor co-author of the best-selling 2005 book, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: True stories from from a war zone (Ebury Press). An Auckland Medical School graduate, Andrew returned to NZ in 2007 to receive a ‘Distinguished Alumni Award’ from the University of Auckland.

Russell Crowe picked up the TV/Film rights last year after Harvey Weinstein had earlier relinquished them. Here is the latest news running online:

Simon Beaufoy, Oscar winning writer for Slumdog Millionaire, is set to script Emergency Sex on HBO, starring Maria Bello in a project based on the book that Russell Crowe bought the rights for, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: True stories from from a war, written by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson, follows their travels, sex, and addiction to helping rebuild and heal communities across Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, and Somalia.
The three met in Cambodia as helpers for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the ’90s and the story details their travels to the various locales and the mental strain they endured. Obviously, Bello will likely be playing Postlewait in the series.