On June 29,2023, Netflix introduced that they might be adapting the hit novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The e-book has been a smash on TikTok, which implies it is a success in all places, and followers have been clamoring for a film model whereas pondering their dream forged.
Reid’s different wildly profitable e-book Daisy Jones & The Six was was a TV present that has been very fashionable as effectively, so this selection is a no brainer. Here is all the pieces we all know in regards to the film model to this point.
What’s the plot of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
The story is about imaginary Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo, who’s being interviewed by a author about her life. Of their press launch, Netflix appears to be sticking fairly near the e-book’s plot to this point.
“In an extended awaited interview with a younger journalist, Evelyn Hugo, an ageing Hollywood starlet, pulls again the curtain on her seven marriages, and as she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils surprising truths about her personal life and the lives of everybody round her.”
You possibly can spoil it for your self extra completely by selecting up the e-book.
Who’s within the forged of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
To this point, nobody. However followers have been obsessive about the concept of Jessica Chastain starring because the redheaded Evelyn, and it obtained to the purpose the place she needed to deal with rumors that she turned down a “unhealthy script.”
“I’ve been requested a number of occasions by followers, to signal books that I’m not hooked up to contractually,” she tweeted of readers asking for her to signal their e-book copy. “As a result of it feels unsuitable, and like I am taking credit score for another person’s work, I’ll say I cant signal as a result of I’m not doing it. That doesn’t imply I’ve learn a foul script.”
That does not imply she would not do it. She instructed Andy Cohen she’d learn a script if one ever obtained despatched her method.
Who’s behind the scenes?
The crew remodeling the e-book right into a script which may sometime get despatched to Jessica Chastain had been assembled. Leslye Headland has been set to direct, and she or he is thought for Netflix’s hit present Russian Doll, in addition to movies About Final Evening and Sleeping With Different Individuals. The script is being helmed by Liz Tigelaar, who helped translate the books Tiny Lovely Issues and Little Fires In all places onto the display screen.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first e-book, The Lonely Hunter, shall be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
