Fake Skating
Novel by Lynn PainterWikipedia
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Oct 2, 2026
Christine RiccioHOST
Good.
Natasha PolisHOST
Also, Fake Skating, which is gonna be a feature film.
Christine RiccioHOST
Is that Lynn Painter?
Natasha PolisHOST
Yes.
speaker_1HOST
Because you can't separate the two, right?
speaker_2HOST
No, you simply cannot separate the author who currently has major motion pictures in development, like Better Than The Movies and Fake Skating, from the author who spent an agonizingly long time being told no.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
It's like, um, looking at an iceberg.
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speaker_1HOST
It's almost sci-fi.
speaker_2HOST
The visual and emotional input from a live human being is so powerful that it actually deletes the author's original imagination.
speaker_1HOST
We see that happen again with the upcoming adaptation of another one of her books, Fake Skating.
speaker_1HOST
Josh Boone is directing it, and he revised the script with Nate Lee.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Go on.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Fake Skating.
Ace BurpeeHOST
So this is adapted from a novel by Lynn Painter who blew up on BookTok.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Okay.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Yeah.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Hockey novel.
Ace BurpeeHOST
Fake skating.
Ace BurpeeHOST
And it'll be directed by Josh Boone.
Brittany DeitchHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Josh BooneGUEST
... you know, I just got hired to do, um, Lynn Painter's book, Fake Skating, for Sony.
Brittany DeitchHOST
Mm.
Josh BooneGUEST
And it's like, uh, you know, the first thing you always do is you find the music that's the tone of the movie that you wanna make.