Lionsgate Dates Feature Adaptation Of Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ For Fall
deadline.comLionsgate’s feature take of Judy Blume’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been scheduled for Sept. 16 this year.As Deadline first reported in early March 2020, the studio won the film rights to Blume’s 1970 novel in an auction, green lighting the feature with a $30M production cost and Kelly Fremon Craig directing her scripted take and Gracie Films’ James L.
Brooks producing. The two teamed up on The Edge of Seventeen. The feature follows Margaret, a sixth grader who moves from the city to the suburbs.
She prays to God to watch over her and help her through her anxieties, including puberty and its changes to her body and her emotions.
The pic stars Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret, and Benny Safdie.Are You There God? is scheduled on a weekend against Sony’s The Woman King and Universal’s Distant.
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