Toni Collette will make a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. Topic Studios, which recently released the Jodie Foster-starrerThe Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times bestseller.
It followsCasey Peabody, an underemployed, aspiring novelist in 1990’s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her mother’s sudden death.
Her life becomes more complicated as she then falls for two very different men at the same time. Collette will also write the screenplay, along with Nick Payne (Wanderlust, The Crown), as well asproduce under her Vocab Films banner. “I have been wanting to direct for quite some time but have been a bit busy with my day job.
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