Fans awaiting any news about Netflix’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo film finally have an update, though it’s not necessarily good news. Filmmaker Leslye Headland will no longer direct the upcoming adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling book, she told Variety in an interview published on Jan. 29.
“I am no longer working on that project,” Headland, who recently helmed the Star Wars spin-off The Acolyte and co-created Netflix’s Russian Doll, said. “I remain a huge, huge fan of the book and of the people working on it.”
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Headland went on to explain, “It’s one of those things where you know it’s going to be a huge success. I thought, ‘Damn it. It’s not going to work out with me involved in it, but it is going to be wildly successful.’ It is the type of book that if I’d read it in
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