Anna Kendrick has been employed to direct “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” for Netflix. Two different filmmakers, Maggie Betts and Leslye Headland, had been beforehand hooked up to the mission however departed for unknown causes.
Tailored from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling 2017 novel, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” follows a fictional Previous Hollywood star who offers a closing interview to an unknown journalist. Throughout her tell-all, the fiercely non-public celeb pulls again the curtain on the true story of her notorious seven marriages and different wild tales of showbiz scandals, betrayals and woes.
Netflix picked up rights in 2022 however the mission has struggled to get off the bottom. No casting particulars have been introduced. Followers of the novel had been vocal about wanting Jessica Chastain to play the title function of Evelyn Hugo, an iconic redhead, however the actress shared years in the past that there’s “zero possibility” of it occurring.
Liz Tigelaar, whose credit embrace “Tiny Beautiful Things” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” wrote the primary draft of the script. Francesca Sloane (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Atlanta,” “Fargo,” “Big Little Lies” Season 3) is presently engaged on revisions.
That is Reid’s second novel to get the Hollywood remedy after Amazon’s 2023 restricted sequence “Daisy Jones & the Six,” which was loosely based mostly on Fleetwood Mac’s recording of “Rumours.” Reid will government produce “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” with Margaret Chernin. Liza Chasin for 3Dot Productions, Brad Mendelsohn for Circle Administration + Productions will function producers.
Kendrick is finest generally known as an actress in “Pitch Perfect” and the “Twilight” saga. She made her directorial debut with “Woman of the Hour,” which Netflix shelled out eight figures to land on the 2023 Toronto Movie Pageant. Kendrick will seem subsequent on display screen in Chris Rock’s drama “Misty Green” and Lauren Miller Rogen’s comedy “Babies.” Deadline first reported the information of Kendrick’s hiring.
