EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s alteration of the Tauylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times best-selling novel The Seven Husprohibitds Of Evelyn Hugo has acquireed some momentum as sources tell Deadline The Burial straightforwardor Maggie Betts has come on to straightforward the film. Betts will co-author the script with Liz Tigelaar. Liza Chasin will originate for 3Dot Productions alengthy with Brad Mfinishelsohn for Circle Management + Productions.
The book, which has spent 120 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback, six years after begining, and has turned into a TikTok book phenomenon before Netflix landed the rights. The story is set during a lengthy apauseed interwatch with a youthful journaenumerate, where Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, pulls back the curtain on her seven marriages, and as she tells tales of Hollywood affairs, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths about her own life and the dwells of everyone around her. Taylor Jenkins Reid and Margaret Chernin will exec originate.
Leslye Headland was on board to straightforward but last month during the Sundance Film Festival validateed she was no lengthyer on board. Netflix is still very on the project and had their eyes on Betts for some time to apshow over straightforwarding duties.
For Betts, this labels a strong chase-up after straightforwarding the criticassociate acclaimed The Burial from Amazo and starred Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. That film came after another critical darling in the Sony Pictures Classics pic Novitiate.
She is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
