EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times best-selling novel The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo has gained some momentum, as sources tell Deadline The Burial director Maggie Betts has come on to direct the film. Betts will co-write the script with Liz Tigelaar. Liza Chasin will produce for 3Dot Productions along with Brad Mendelsohn for Circle Management + Production.
The book has spent 120 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback, six years after publishing, and has turned into a TikTok book phenomenon before Netflix landed the rights. The story is set during a long awaited interview with a young journalist, where Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, pulls back the curtain on her seven marriages, and as she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths about her own life and the lives of everyone around her. Jenkins Reid and Margaret Chernin will exec
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