Thea Sharrock, the filmmaker behind the hit romantic drama Me Earlier than You, has been tapped to helm Lionsgate’s characteristic movie adaptation of The Issues We Depart Unfinished, the love story by Fourth Wing writer Rebecca Yarros.
Todd Lieberman, who produced Lionsgate’s almost $400 million worldwide smash hit The Housemaid, and the Lionsgate/Netflix sci-fi motion hit Battle Machine, is producing by way of his banner Hidden Footage.
The story tells of a lady who, after a devastating public huge metropolis divorce, returns dwelling within the Rockies the place she should reluctantly work with an conceited bestselling writer to complete her late great-grandmother’s WWII love story. Within the course of, the 2 uncover secrets and techniques of the previous at the same time as their simple attraction brings them nearer collectively.
Arash Amel (A Personal Battle, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) tailored the novel for the massive display screen.
Yarros wrote a number of romance tales previous to changing into an enormous identify writer together with her Fourth Wing fantasy books, Issues We Depart Unfinished amongst them. These novels have grow to be hot commodities not simply due to her identify but additionally a resurgence of onscreen love tales.
The writer is exec producing Issues We Depart Unfinished via her manufacturing firm Full Measures Productions. Additionally exec producing are Amel, via his shingle The Amel Firm, together with Alex Younger and Carly Kleinbart Elter of Hidden Footage.
Lionsgate has discovered appreciable success with adapting well-liked books. The Housemaid was primarily based on the novel by Freida McFadden and it lately received a seven-studio bidding conflict for the variation rights to The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Lieberman can also be producing the latter). And the corporate has The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping set for launch later this yr.
“Thea has an incredible gift for emotional storytelling and is the perfect filmmaker to bring Rebecca Yarros’ sweeping, romantic, and heartbreaking story to the screen,” mentioned Lionsgate Movement Picutre Group president Erin Westerman in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The undertaking is being overseen by Scott O’Brien and Maria Ascanio at Lionsgate and Hidden Footage’ Kleinbart Elter, who introduced within the undertaking.
Sharrock, who started her profession as a theatre director in England, directed Women First, the gender-reversal comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike that debuted on Netflix final week. Her characteristic debut was the weepie Me Earlier than You, which starred Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin and took in over $200 million worldwide.
As a theatre director, her manufacturing of After the Dance received the Olivier Award for greatest revival, and it was her acclaimed 2007 revival of Equus that marked Daniel Radcliffe’s Broadway debut.
Sharrock is repped by CAA.
