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'The Distance From Me To You' Lands At New Line For HBO Max You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content June 2, 2021 10:09am SERVICES TO SHARE THIS
PAGE. EXCLUSIVE: New Line won a competitive pitch for the YA novel _The Distance from Me_ _to You_ for HBO Max. Sabrina Carpenter is attached to star and executive produce. Tiffany Paulsen
will adapt the Marina Gessner novel. The Cartel’s Stan Spry will produce with Danielle Fishel executive producing. The pitch had other offers and sold for mid-six figures. In the novel, two
teens running from very different lives meet and fall in love on the Appalachian Trail. But what starts as a coming-of-age story of first love soon turns into a wilderness thriller when they
find themselves dangerously lost and fighting for survival. Paulsen, who wrote _Nancy Drew_ and Disney Channel’s _Adventures in Babysitting_, scripted the Netflix film_ Holidate_, and sold
to that streamer an original pitch she’ll write and direct with Kristen Chenoweth starring. She’s currently writing_ About Fate_ for Emma Roberts to star in. Carpenter’s credits include
_Girl Meets World, The Hate U Give, The Short History of the Long Road, Work It_ and _Clouds_. She launched her production label, At Last Productions, and the first project is _Alice_, a
musical reimagining of _Alice In Wonderland_ that Carpenter will star in and produce with Netflix. She made her Broadway debut starring in _Mean Girls_. WATCH ON DEADLINE Paulsen is repped
by Verve, which brokered the auction. Carpenter is repped by Paradigm, Foundation Media Partners and Goodman Genow. Comments JavaScript is required to load the comments. MARKETPLACE SITE ad