Netflix’s adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo has found its new director! After Leslye Headland confirmed last month that she had exited the project, Deadline reported Tuesday that filmmaker Maggie Betts will direct the upcoming film.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo will mark Bett’s latest project after The Burial, the Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones-starring film from Amazon Studios. Betts, whose previous credits include her 2010 directorial debut The Carrier and her 2017 debut feature Novitiate, will also co-write the screenplay with Liz Tigelaar.
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Originally slated as a limited series at Freeform before Netflix took over the project as a film adaptation, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is based on Jenkins Reid’s 2017 bestselling novel of the same name. Per Netflix’s synopsis, “In a long awaited interview with a young journalist, Evelyn Hugo, an
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