Former Minnesotan Diablo Cody sells comedy series to ABC

Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody sells a comedy series project to ABC. The former Minnesotan, who won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Juno," sold to the network her script for "Alex + Amy," which is described as a "romance between an ambitious 22-year-old Millennial guy and a 32-year-old Gen X woman."

Author:: BMTN Staff
Updated:: Mar 8, 2018
Original:: Nov 5, 2012

Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody has sold a comedy series project to ABC, reported Entertainment Weekly.

The former Minnesotan sold to the network her script for "Alex + Amy," which is described as a "romance between an ambitious 22-year-old Millennial guy and a 32-year-old Gen X woman."

Cody won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the 2007 comedy "Juno," which was set in Minnesota. She also wrote the screenplay for the 2011 Charlize Theron comedy "Young Adult," which was also set in and partially shot in Minnesota.

The writer previously created for television the dramedy series "United States of Tara," which ran for two seasons on cable's Showtime.

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