Paramount Pictures' shopping spree for popular television series to adapt for the big screen continues as the studio has bought feature film rights to hit series The Partridge Family, which aired on ABC. Paramount optioned the rights from TV writer/playwright Bernard Slade, who created the original series. Slade will executive produce the feature, which is out to writers. Pam Abdy will oversee for the studio. Billy Gerber is producing. Gerber, who brought the project to Paramount, was an executive on the project during his time at Warner Bros. Pictures, which held feature film rights to the series for several years. Gerber's father, Roy Gerber, managed the original TV series' Shirley Jones, who played Shirley Partridge on the TV series.
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