Anna Kendrick is stepping in to direct the The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Netflix introduced Monday that the star will helm the movie adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2017 best-selling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Little Fires All over the place creator, showrunner and government producer Liz Tigelaar will write the movie, with present revisions by Francesca Sloane. Producers embody Liza Chasin for 3Dot Productions and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion. Reid and Margaret Chernin will exec produce. Reid can even exec produce.
Kendrick directing is the most recent replace with the variation. The perfect-selling novel was previously in development for a sequence on Freeform with The L Phrase‘s Ilene Chaiken and Jennifer Beals exec producing. Kendrick made her directorial debut with Girl of the Hour which launched on Netflix in late 2024.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo facilities on reclusive, iconic Hollywood starlet Evelyn Hugo, who enlists unknown reporter Monique Grant to jot down her tell-all e book, which can chronicle her life story and rise to fame through the golden age of Hollywood. All the time the topic of tabloids, Evelyn additionally particulars for the primary time her seven marriages, revealing secrets and techniques she’s held on to, who she is behind the scenes and why she selected Monique for her closing confession.
Although casting for the movie has but to be publicly introduced, followers have been fast to pinpoint sure Hollywood stars as their picks to painting the e book’s characters, most notably Jessica Chastain, Ana de Armas and Eiza González.
Throughout an interview with E! Information in 2023, Chastain mentioned that there’s “zero possibility” that she would star within the adaptation as Celia St. James however liked to see how “wonderful” the e book’s fanbase is.
In the meantime each de Armas and González have expressed being open to starring within the movie for the titular position. ”It’d be such an honor,” González has mentioned. “I love the book. I love all [Reid’s] stuff. I’m a huge fan.”
Evelyn Hugo is only one of plenty of Reid’s books to be tailored for the display screen. Carrie Soto is Again is in growth as a TV sequence for Netflix with Amanda Kate Shuman writing and Serena Williams exec producing. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively revealed that Reid’s novel Malibu Rising is being developed as a TV sequence for Hulu, with Taylor adapting and government producing alongside Circle of Confusion. The writer’s novel One True Loves was adapted for film and starred Hamilton‘s Phillipa Soo, Shang Chi’s Simu Liu and Holidate‘s Luke Bracey. In the meantime, her best-seller Daisy Jones and the Six was launched as a Prime Video sequence that starred Riley Keough and Sam Claflin.
Reid has offered over 24 million copies worldwide in 43 languages (together with English) along with her books additionally being chosen for the GMA E-book Membership, Reese Witherspoon’s e book membership and Learn with Jenna, Jenna Bush Hager’s e book membership.
