Netflix adaptation of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo suffers blow as director quits

The Netflix adaptation of 1 of the astir fashionable books successful caller years has suffered a stroke aft manager Leslye Headland stepped down.

Leslye had been attached to nonstop the movie The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which is based connected the 2017 caller by US writer Taylor Jenkins Reid.

It follows the communicative of the titular character, a erstwhile Hollywood star, who is approached by a writer to recount her beingness communicative and her marriages to 7 antithetic men.

The bid was primitively planned to beryllium adapted for TV successful 2019, and Jenkins Reid was attached to write, but the bid didn’t determination forward.

Leslye Headland, who had already produced palmy works for Netflix including Russian Doll, was primitively attached to bring the task to life.

However, successful an interrogation with Variety, Headland has confirmed that she is nary longer moving connected the Seven Husbands adaptation for the streaming giant.

‘I americium nary longer moving connected that project,’ she revealed to the American publication. ‘I stay a huge, immense instrumentality of the publication and of the radical moving connected it.’

She continued: ‘It’s 1 of those things wherever you cognize it’s going to beryllium a immense success. I thought, “Damn it. It’s not going to enactment retired with maine progressive successful it, but it is going to beryllium wildly successful.”‘

Heaping much praise connected Jenkins Reid, she added: ‘It is the benignant of publication that if I’d work it successful my twenties, I would person had a wholly antithetic life. It’s truthful beautifully done.’

It’s besides not known who Netflix plans to regenerate Headland with, and it’s not been confirmed if the task volition proceed to determination guardant without her.

Many had precocious hopes for the Seven Husbands adaptation aft Headland’s Russian Doll bid won respective awards, including 3 Emmys successful 2019.

No formed accusation had been revealed, but galore fans of the caller hoped that 1 of Jessica Chastain oregon Aubrey Plaza would onshore the 2 pb roles.

However, Chastain rapidly ruled herself retired of contention, saying determination was ‘zero possibility’ of the task moving guardant with her being fixed apical billing.

Speaking to E! News, she said: ‘[There’s] zero possibility. But I emotion however excited the fans are … I look guardant to watching it, and I’m atrocious to disappoint everyone retired there.’

Across 2017 and 2018, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo spent 54 weeks connected the New York Times’ bestseller database for paperback novels.

Split into 7 parts for each of the 7 husbands, the caller besides tells the communicative of however the fictional Evelyn fought her mode into Hollywood during its mid-20th period aureate age.

On GoodReads – a website that allows users to complaint and reappraisal the books they work – it has a whopping 4.41 people (out of five) based connected implicit 3 cardinal ratings.

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