<P> Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock is a fiction novel written by Matthew Quick about a 17 - year - old boy who plans to shoot his ex bestfriend, then kill himself, on his birthday . </P> <P> Leonard Peacock is a high school student who plans to kill his best friend, then himself . The novel passes for a day in the life of Leonard, in which many characters who play an important role in his life stumble in his way . We realize at the end of the novel that his best friend, Asher, sexually abused him a couple of years ago, then forgot their friendship in exchange of being accepted by the popular kids in school . </P> <P> In October 2017, Channing Tatum announced that plans for a movie adaptation, upon which he had been working in association with the Weinstein Company, were no longer to continue in the wake of allegations of sexual assaults by Harvey Weinstein . The movie was to have been Tatum's directorial debut . </P>

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