A movie adaptation of Emma Straub‘s “American Fantasy” novel is in development from “Imperfect Women” and “The Handmaid’s Story” star Elisabeth Moss.
Optioned by Moss and Lindsey McManus’s Love & Squalor Photos, “American Fantasy” was printed by Penguin Random Home in April 2026. The story follows Annie, a not too long ago divorced lady who boards a nostalgia cruise headlined by the ’90s boy band that soundtracked her adolescence — solely to search out herself unexpectedly reckoning with who she was and who she nonetheless desires to be.
Moss and McManus will produce the movie with Straub set as an government producer. No author, forged or distributor is presently hooked up to the venture.
The New York Occasions bestseller was first launched to Moss when she appeared on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” on the identical night time that Straub (additionally the writer of “This Time Tomorrow,” “All Adults Here,” “The Vacationers” and “Modern Lovers”) was movie star bartender and gifted copies of the novel to them.
Love & Squalor Photos not too long ago launched two new collection, “Imperfect Women” for Apple TV, starring Moss alongside Kerry Washington and Kate Mara, and “The Testaments” for Hulu, the follow-up to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Subsequent up, the banner has “Conviction,” a Hulu collection from David Shore wherein Moss will even star, set to start manufacturing this month in New York.
“Emma’s honest yet humorous portrayal of the humbling experience of being a fan is so rare and genuinely fun to read that we knew we had to find a way to bring it to screen,” Moss and McManus stated in a joint assertion Monday.
Straub added: “Elisabeth Moss has talent spilling out of every one of her pores, and I feel delighted to have been caught in the tractor beam of her gaze. What luck, to have such a tenacious force on the side of this story! I am gobsmacked. Thank you to my fairy godfather, Andy Cohen!”
Moss and Love & Squalor are repped by WME, Ocean Avenue, Ribisi Leisure Group and Hansen Jacobson.
Straub is repped by WME.
