Netflix‘s adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has formally discovered a brand new director, with Deadline reporting {that a} new filmmaker has been tapped to helm the undertaking.
Who’s the brand new The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo director?
In line with Deadline, Maggie Betts (The Burial) has formally joined the undertaking and can direct the upcoming movie. Betts will co-write the script alongside Liz Tigelaar.
Betts will step into the movie that was initially set to be directed by Leslye Headland. Nonetheless, Headland revealed that she was not hooked up to the undertaking throughout an look on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo facilities round a legendary Hollywood actress who has enlisted an up-and-coming reporter to inform her life story. The movie will chronicle Evelyn Hugo’s rise to fame in the course of the Golden Age of Hollywood, in addition to the sacrifices she made to get to the highest.
The movie relies on the hit historic fiction novel of the identical identify by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which was printed in 2017. The ebook spent 120 weeks on the New York Instances Bestseller listing, and has grow to be a serious hit throughout readers on social media, notably TikTok.
The film might be govt produced by Reid and Margaret Chernin, with Liza Chasin of 3Dot Productions and Brad Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion set as producers.
(Supply: Deadline)
