Toni Collette Making Feature Directing Debut With ‘Writers and Lovers’
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaToni Collette will make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s “Writers and Lovers.” The novel, a best-seller when it was released last year, tells the story of Casey Peabody, an underemployed, aspiring writer in 1990’s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her mother’s sudden death. After she falls for two very different men at the same time, life gets complicated.