Leslye Headland To Direct Adaptation Of ‘The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo’ For Netflix
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s highly-anticipated adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo looks to have found a director as sources tell Deadline, Leslye Headland is on board to helm.
Liz Tigelaar penned the script with Liza Chasin producing for 3Dot Productions while Brad Mendelsohn will producer for Circle of Confusion.
Jenkins Reid and Margaret Chernin will exec produce. The book, which has spent 54 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback list in 2021, four years after publishing, and has turned into a TikTok book phenomenon before Netflix landed the rights.
The story is set during a long awaited interview with a young journalist, where Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, pulls back the curtain on her seven marriages, and as she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths about her own life and the lives of everyone around her.
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