We are honored to help bring his vision of this incredible true story to screen. “Joe and Jadin Bell’s story is a poignant reminder of how precious life is, and a life-affirming example of love transcending the prejudice and victimization familiar to many,” said A24.
Attempting to work through his grief, Joe sets out on a walk across America, hoping to promote awareness about the consequences of prejudice to anyone he encounters along the way. In the wake of Jadin's suicide, Joe is plunged into a sea of remorse and regret. Jadin, a fifteen-year-old openly gay sophomore, took his own life after being both bullied at high school and struggling for acceptance from the people closest to him. The project is based upon the true story of Oregonian father-and-son Joe and Jadin Bell. Daniel Crown of Red Crown will executive produce. This marks the first project to be developed from script to screen by A24, who are producing the film along with Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls production company, Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker of Red Crown Productions, and Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Productions. But ultimately, if you can't make it work then it's probably for the good, so I'm in a pretty good place.A24 AND TRUE DETECTIVE’S CARY FUKUNAGA TO DEVELOP AND PRODUCE INSPIRING FATHER-SON DRAMA FOR FUKUNAGA TO DIRECTĪward-winning filmmaker Cary Fukunaga and A24 will develop an untitled drama based on the true story of Joe and Jadin Bell that Fukunaga will direct, with BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana to write the script, it was announced today. My thing was like, whatever isn't working, we'll make it work. Everyone gets divorced-or a lot of people get divorced-but it just never was in my cards. It's not an event, it's not somebody was cheating, it's not chronic gambling or COVID, it's really just two people that were just that different and just had completely different processes and approaches to life and just couldn't meet in the middle somewhere.” He added that he definitely never saw the split coming, confessing, “It's hard, it's a weird thing. We've been together for 25 years, we're very different human beings, we have different sets of philosophies, that's for sure. He went on to explain, “It's been a difficult time. I did not get much devastation.” Carolla and Lynette got married in September 2002 after six years of dating, welcoming their twins Natalia and Sonny-who turn 15 next month-in 2006. They're doing well.” In fact, he joked, “Some say too well, I wanted a little devastation. “It's not something that I wanted to get or to do, I'm a product of divorce, Lynette's a product of divorce…No one ever signs up to get divorced.” He went on to explain that they've “been separated for a few months, it's hard. Lynette and I are getting divorced,” he said.
“We're going to start the show with some sad personal news. On Friday, the radio personality announced the sad news at the beginning of his podcast, The Adam Carolla Show, and seemed to imply that the split was not his idea. And now, Adam Carolla and his wife of 19 years, Lynette, are the newest additions to that list. A large number of high-profile couples have called it quits this year, from Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to Bill and Melinda Gates.