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Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek board Netflix's Seesaw Monster adaptation
Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek are teaming up to star in an adaptation of Kotaro Isaka's 2019 novel Seesaw Monster. Netflix secured the feature rights, with Olivia Milch (Ocean's 8) set to write the screenplay adaptation and Hathaway and Hayek producing, via Deadline.No director is attached, though it comes on the heels of the success of Bullet Train, which was adapted from Isaka's 2010 novel Maria Beetle. Team: Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek are teaming up to star in an adaptation of Kotaro Isaka's 2019 novel Seesaw Monster Producing: Netflix secured the feature rights, with Olivia Milch (Ocean's 8) set to write the screenplay adaptation and Hathaway and Hayek producing, via Deadline Novel: No director is attached, though it comes on the heels of the success of Bullet Train, which was adapted from Isaka's 2010 novel Maria BeetleThe novel goes between Japan's Showa Era (1926-1989) and the year 2050, following the mysterious relationship between a wife and her mother-in-law.Netflix didn't disclose any official plot details but said the project is an, 'action-comedy two-hander' following Hathaway and Hayek as rivals forced to work together. No production schedule was given at this time for the project and it's unclear how many more characters need to be cast.
