Netflix is adapting the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” as a feature film. Creator of “Little Fires Everywhere” on Hulu, Liz Tigelaar is adapting. Liza Chasin for 3Dot Productions and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion produces the project.
The book is a New York Times Bestseller that already spent weeks at the top of the list even four years after it’s publishing. The book follows a reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo, who chooses an unknown reporter, Monique Grant, to narrate her life story. Evelyn narrates her time during the Golden Age of Hollywood, her fame, her seven marriages and a cobweb of revelations and lies. But why did she choose Monique, a rookie reporter for her life confessions?
Tigelaar created, showran and executive produced the Emmy nominated Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere. She also served as showrunner and executive producer of Hulu’s Golden Globe-nominated comedy “Casual”.
Tigelaar is also adapting another New York Times bestseller from Taylor Jenkins Reid called “Malibu Rising”, for Hulu and 20th Century Television. Reid penned the script for “Daisy Jones & the Six” , currently under production at Amazon, Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion.
This is not the first time “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is in talks over an adaptation. Earlier it was to be developed as a series for Freeform penned by Reid herself with Fox 21 Television Studios producing.
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