EXCLUSIVE: A TV adaptation of Jennine Capó Crucet’s newest novel Say Hey To My Little Pal (Simon & Schuster, 2025) is in improvement at AMC Studios for AMC from Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego’s Hyphenate Media Group (Land of Girls) and Gina Mingacci (Killing Eve), sources divulge to Deadline.
The darkish comedy sequence shall be written by Capó Crucet, who, we hear, has already written the pilot for the undertaking which is described as Scarface meets Moby Dick. We perceive the TV sequence will comply with the novel’s storyline fairly intently.
“Say hey to my little buddy” is likely one of the most quotable traces in movie historical past, spoken by Al Pacino whereas taking part in Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983). Oliver Stone, because the screenwriter of the Miami-set function, is credited for writing the road.
The novel follows failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes—you may name him Izzy—who won’t be the Scarface kind, however why ought to that maintain him from making an attempt? Rising up in Miami has formed him into somebody who goals of being the King of the 305, with the cash, energy, and respect he assumes comes with it. After discovering himself on the mercy of a cease-and-desist letter from Pitbull’s authorized group and dwelling in his aunt’s storage, Izzy embarks on an absurd quest to show himself right into a modern-day Tony Montana.
Capó Crucet is one in every of Miami’s pre-eminent literary voices representing the second-generation Latino expertise of not absolutely feeling such as you’re from the US the place you have been born, nor from the Latin American dwelling of our dad and mom. Her profession launched in 2009 with the discharge of her guide of brief tales, How To Go away Hialeah, which obtained the Iowa Brief Fiction Prize, the John Gardner Ebook Award, and the Satan’s Kitchen Studying Award.
Different titles embody the New York Instances Ebook Assessment Editors’ Alternative Make Your House Amongst Strangers (St. Martin’s Press, 2015), My Time Amongst The Whites: Notes From An Unfinished Schooling (Picador, USA, 2019) and Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (Harper, 2024), which she contributed to amongst many different notable authors. Capó Crucet is repped by Maria Massie at Massie McQuilkinn and Altman Literary Brokers.
Along with Say Hey to My Little Pal, Hyphenate Media Group is creating Confessions on the 7:45 at Hulu. Within the unscripted area, they’ve been taking pictures Bienvenido A Necaxa, a by-product of Welcome to Wrexham following a Mexican soccer group, and the CNN Authentic sequence Trying to find Spain, premiering in April. Hyphenate Media Group is a media holding firm and premium content material studio that develops and produces its personal slate of premium programming and invests in creator-led manufacturing corporations.
Mingacci has produced a number of TV and movie tasks, together with Austenland and the BBC’s hit Killing Eve, a British spy thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. She is presently collaborating with Jonathan Glatzer on AMC’s newest unique sequence, the as but untitled Silicon Valley undertaking centered round a rift between a self-appointed “inventor of the long run” tech CEO and his self-serving “efficiency psychologist”, who’re engulfed in a scandal sparked by the exploitation of private knowledge.
