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EXCLUSIVE: Following nan occurrence of her directorial debut, Woman of The Hour, Anna Kendrick is reuniting pinch Netflix connected her adjacent directing gig and has group her sights connected 1 of nan studio’s high-profile adaptations. Sources show Deadline, Kendrick is coming connected to nonstop an adjustment of nan Taylor Jenkins Reid caller The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo. Liza Chasin is producing done 3Dot Productions arsenic good arsenic Brad Mendelsohn for Circle Management + Productions and David Hinojosa.
Based connected Reid’s sensational New York Times bestselling novel, nan movie follows a young journalist’s agelong awaited question and reply pinch Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, who pulls backmost nan curtain connected her 7 marriages, and arsenic she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths astir her ain life and nan lives of everyone astir her. Liz Tigelaar penned nan first draught of nan script pinch Francesca Sloane presently moving connected revisions.
Jenkins Reid will exec produce.
Jenkins Reid has sold complete 24 cardinal copies worldwide successful 43 languages (including English). Additionally, she has built an awesome profession that has garnered a dedicated pursuing connected societal media. On TikTok alone, Taylor’s sanction has garnered 783 million views, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo gathering 759 million views. Her books person been chosen by GMA Book Club, Reese’s Book Club, Read pinch Jenna, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and Book of nan Month. Prime Video and Hello Sunshine produced a constricted bid tv adjustment of Reid’s book Daisy Jones & The Six.
Her astir caller fresh Atmosphere was named Target’s 2025 Book of nan Year and received nan 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. In summation to its nickname arsenic a Good Morning America Book Club Featured Pick, nan caller besides reached #1 connected nan New York Times Bestseller list.
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While Kendrick has continued to enactment engaged connected nan acting beforehand which has included reprising her domiciled successful Another Simple Favor, she has taken her clip pursuing her critically acclaimed directing debut connected Woman of nan Hour, the serial slayer making love crippled pic for which Netflix paid 8 figures erstwhile it deed nan Toronto Film Festival marketplace successful 2023.
Following nan occurrence of that pic, Netflix worked difficult to make her judge her adjacent directing outing was pinch them and aft looking done respective scripts, Evelyn Hugo made nan astir consciousness fixed really precocious nan workplace has been connected nan spot since landing nan authorities successful 2022.
Next up connected nan acting beforehand for Kendrick is nan A24 pic Misty Green from head Chris Rock. She is repped by Range Media Partners, CAA and lawyer Todd Rubenstein. Jenkins Reid is repped by Circle Management + Production, WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
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