Following a heated bidding war that saw a half-dozen offers, Netflix has acquired the rights to No. 1 New York Times bestseller Strangers by Belle Burden, with Gwyneth Paltrow attached to star in a feature adaptation.
Stacey Sher is attached to produce with Heidi Schreck attached to adapt the script. Paltrow is also attached to exec produce.
Published in January by Dial Press, the memoir is set in March 2020 and revolves around Burden. She’s safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together — building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of 20 years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a
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