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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has enlisted Julia Hart (I’m Your Woman) to nonstop a characteristic adjustment of Better Than nan Movies, nan bestselling YA com-com caller from Lynn Painter that’s celebrating its 5th anniversary.
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Better Than nan Movies is simply a emotion missive to romanticist comedies, successful which elder Liz Buxbaum relies connected her obsession pinch rom-com movies to get nan attraction of her untouchable crush, pinch an assistance from her annoying but tiny next-door neighbor. The book pays homage to each nan romance tropes — clone relationship, enemies to lovers, boy adjacent doorway — but throws them connected their caput for a caller return connected what happily ever aft looks like.
Published by Simon & Schuster, nan book has appeared connected nan New York Times monthly YA paperback database for 41 months and its play YA hardcover database for 12 weeks.
In summation to directing, Hart is simply a co-writer connected nan project, having completed 1 draught pinch hubby and imaginative partner Jordan Horowitz. Heather Flanders besides completed a draft. Horowitz will nutrient for Original Headquarters, alongside Shauna Phelan.
Better Than nan Movies marks nan 2nd Original Headquarters task astatine Netflix, pursuing nan Hart-helmed Don’t Say Good Luck, a teen play starring Sunny Sandler, which releases August 14. Hart and Horowitz besides co-wrote that title, produced by Adam and Jackie Sandler, Horowitz, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger.
Hart collapsed retired pinch her characteristic directorial debut, Miss Stevens, a road-trip dramedy starring Lily Rabe, Timothée Chalamet, and Lili Reinhart, which premiered astatine SXSW successful 2016. Following that movie up pinch Fast Color, a genre-bender starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw which besides premiered astatine nan Austin, TX festival, her different credits arsenic head see Prime Video’s crime play I’m Your Woman starring Rachel Brosnahan, positive nan teen titles Stargirl and Hollywood Stargirl for Disney+. She is repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, arsenic is Horowitz.
A writer from Illinois, Painter precocious group up a characteristic adjustment of her bestseller Fake Skating astatine Sony, pinch Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge group to produce, arsenic we first reported.
