Plan B has plans to adapt the coming-of-age story of Oscar and Grammy Award winners into feature films, so he chose the right to mark Ronson’s memoir, Night People: How to Become a New York City DJ in the 90s.
Ronson’s memoirs are electric recollections of his early career before creating hit records for Bruno Mars and Amy Winehouse, the Oscar-winning songs “Shallow,” “Shallow,” and “The Stars Are Born,” or the Oscar-winning song “Shallow,” which created the score and soundtrack for the $1.4 billion blockbuster “Barbie.” The book, released by Grand Central, hit the shelf on Tuesday and was immediately filmed by Plan B. This appeared in recent successes of global theatrical blockbusters such as “F1” and “Beetlejuice Beet Lejuice,” as well as successes like the Netflix Limited series “Adolescence,” which was the big winner of Sunday’s Primetime EMMYS.
“It ate my life,” Ronson told Variety’s Stephen J. Horowitz ahead of the book’s release. (But) I had to write it for some reason. (In fact, writing “Night People” was a massive commitment of time, as there are around 245 songs named in the book, the key to his trajectory.)
“There are sometimes along the path where you put so much effort into something, and you’re just like, ‘What is this for?’,” explained Ronson. “I turned down production gigs left and right, but whatever it was, I’m proud that it’s just as good as I could have made it with my writing talent.”
Of course, Ronson made time for other projects, including teaming up with Lorne Michaels for the Emmy-nominated “SNL 50: Homecoming Concert” special.
Ronson is represented by the CAA and Good World Management.
