The Hollywood Reporter senior film editor Rebecca Keegan has sold a book on the Coppola family.
The Coppola book will be “a chronicle of American cinema’s first family,” according to publisher Henry Holt, a division of Macmillan. The tome will cover “the culture that created the Coppolas — 19th century Italy and 20th century America, patriarchy and war, wine and opera — and the culture they created, with a particular focus on the subversively artistic lives of the family’s women.”
Keegan, who hosted the 2024 Audible podcast The Godfather: A Film We Can’t Refuse, is also the author of the books Young Frankenstein: The Story of the Making of the Film, written with Mel Brooks, and The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron.
While at THR, Keegan won the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club Print Journalist of the Year Award for her features on “Jane Doe #2” in the Los Angeles Harvey Weinstein trial, a film training program at San Quentin and coverage of the writers and actors strikes. She books and moderates THR’s signature Oscar roundtables and has written cover stories on Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Jonathan Majors and Baby Yoda.
Prior to joining THR, Keegan served as Hollywood correspondent for Vanity Fair, film writer for The Los Angeles Times and correspondent for Time magazine.
Keegan was represented in the deal by agent Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
