Singer-songwriter Hayley Kiyoko (Lemonade Mouth) has partnered with Focus Features for the upcoming movie adaptation of Women Like Women, based mostly on her viral 2015 track and music video of the identical title. The undertaking will function Kiyoko’s characteristic directorial and screenwriting debut.
Who’s concerned within the Women Like Women film?
Women Like Women shall be directed by Kiyoko from a screenplay she’s going to co-write with Stefanie Scott. The latter is likely one of the leads of the Women Like Women music video, which at present has 157 million views on YouTube. The video additionally starred Yellowstone vet Kelsey Asbille and Hayden Thompson. The movie will observe the “common story of falling in love for the primary time, and studying to just accept your self alongside the way in which.”
The movie shall be produced by Marc Platt, Katie McNicol, Adam Siegel, and Dee Finest, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, and Richard Alan Reid, with Michelle Momplaiser set to supervise the undertaking in behalf of Focus Options. Previous to adapting the track right into a film, Kiyoko had additionally revealed a Women Like Women novel in 2023. The approaching-of-age novel reached the primary spot on the New York Occasions bestseller listing, and was additionally awarded a Goldie Award for Younger Grownup Fiction by the Golden Crown Literary Society.
The 2023 novel‘s official synopsis reads, “It’s summertime and 17-year-old Coley has discovered herself alone, once more. Compelled to maneuver to rural Oregon after simply dropping her mom, she is in no place to threat her already fragile coronary heart. However when she meets Sonya, the attraction is fast. Coley worries she isn’t worthy of affection. Up till now, everybody she’s beloved has left her. And Sonya’s by no means been with a lady earlier than. What if she’s too afraid to point out up for Coley? What if by opening her coronary heart, Coley’s risking all of it?
They each understand that when issues are pushed down, and emotions are compelled to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya would be the ones to shrink. It’s not till they settle for the love they concern and deserve most, that all of a sudden the track is sensible.”
Supply: Deadline
