Will Farrell's agent and book adaptation question

[theperfectpitch]

Does anyone know who Will Farrell's agent is??

Does anyone recommend contacting an actor's agent, in this case Farrell's agent, to let them know about a biography worth adapting into a feature film so that the agent could tell the actor about it as a role worth pursuing??

Should the person adapting the script, the writer, contact the agent directly, or should the writer get an agent first and let them handle that??

Should the writer already have a script ready when contacting an actor's agent, or a production company for that matter, or can the book itself be enough initially to generate interest??

[JakeSchuster aka Ostroff]

The first thing you need to do is contact the publisher of the biography of the question and find out if rights to it are available. Without those this project will go nowhere.

[creativexec]

His agent is Jason Heyman at UTA.

It is not unusual for actors to attach to books,
which then get set-up and are developed into
scripts.

Whoever took the book to the actor's agent
would have to have the "rights" or at the least
the author's consent to do so.

If a script is currently being adapted, hold off
on sending the book. Wait until the script
is finished and submit that. (It could be
submitted with the book, as well.)

Any project submitted to talent would have
to be sent through an agent in a professional
manner.

:D

[sidneyfalco]

I would go through Farrell's management company, Mosaic media, once i had secured the rights to the book.

[theperfectpitch]

Thanks everyone for your comments and answers to my questions. Getting the rights to the biography shouldn't be too hard since I have the rights. I'm the author of the book working on adapting it.
I will either keep writing the script or start looking for an agent, or both, if I have the time.

any recommendations for an excellent agent taking on authors adapting their nonfiction biographies as a first time script writer??