The Thing About Jellyfish is American author Ali Benjamin’s first novel. With an international fan base already in place, Brown will soon became an even bigger star when Godzilla: King of the Monsters releases in May. Suzy narrates: "I liked the view from 1968 so much better. Share on twitter. ", Ali Benjamin reads at the 2015 National Book Awards Finalists Reading, Introducing Ali Benjamin and THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Universal has optioned the rights to the 2015 book published by Little Brown and is developing the adaptation with producers Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane of MWM Studios, Bruna Papandrea, and Reese Witherspoon. & Interview With ‘Late Late Show’ Head Writers, Oscar-Nominated ‘Europa Europa’ Director Agnieszka Holland. OddLot’s other films include Rabbit Hole, The Way, Way Back and Drive. I can’t wait to try and check this book out! Millie Bobby Brown and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu are teaming up to adapt acclaimed YA novel The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin. Benjamin was constantly sending me through moments of laughter and joy as well as moments of true sadness that lingered with me, pulling at ever single little string in my heart. [11], Reese Witherspoon announced in October 2015 on her Instagram feed that her company, Pacific Standard Films, would create a film based on the novel.
Senior exec vp production Erik Baiers and director of development Lexi Barta are overseeing on behalf of Universal. The narrative is based on adolescent conflict, coping mechanisms and imagination, as the protagonist constructs a world in which jellyfish experts can lead her to the truth. The Thing About Jellyfish will be adapted for the screen by Molly Smith Metzler, who has previously written for HBO's Orange Is the New Black, Hulu’s Casual, and Showtime’s Shameless. Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group Inc. The Thing About Jellyfish will be produced by MWM Studios, the company behind films like Ender’s Game, Hell or High Water, and Edward Norton’s upcoming film Motherless Brooklyn. She'll star in novel adaptation The Thing About Jellyfish. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory, even if it means traveling the globe, alone.
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Papandrea and Witherspoon have produced films that include Gone Girl and Wild, as well as the upcoming HBO series Big Little Lies. The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. In 2018, the Kenyan filmmaker released the drama Rafiki, which was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board for its lesbian themes.
More normally found facing the terrors of television with Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown has been upping her film work of late, and has just signed on to a new movie.
Director Wanuri Kahiu will oversee this one, which has a script from playwright Molly Smith Metzler that draws from Ali Benjamin's YA tome.
Send us a tip using our annonymous form. The Thing About Jellyfish marks the fiction debut of the aforementioned Benjamin, a Massachusetts native who graduated from Iowa’s Grinnell College. Suzy must prove that the jellyfish was the cause of Fanny's death and that there was someone else to blame. Watchmen Creator Alan Moore Says Superhero Movies Are A Blight, Millie Bobby Brown Sets Next Film With YA Adaptation The Thing About Jellyfish, Where You Recognize The Stranger Things Cast From, 6 Netflix Shows Ending In 2019 (And 14 Possibilities), Pixar's Soul Skipping Theaters To Release on Disney+, Jurassic World 3 Release Date Delayed One Year To June 2022, Jeff Goldblum Recreates Jurassic Park's Shirtless Malcolm Scene In New Photo, Vincent Price's Masque Of The Red Death Is The Perfect Halloween 2020 Movie, Everything We Know About Ready Player Two, MCU Spider-Man 3: Why Doctor Strange Is Replacing Iron Man As Peter’s Mentor, Spike Lee Didn't Know Chadwick Boseman Was Sick Filming Da 5 Bloods, MCU’s Obsession With Spider-Man Mentors Is Bad For Spidey, Godzilla 3 Needs To Provide Justice For The MonsterVerse's Rodan, Over the Moon Review: A Delightful & Wonderfully Magical Animated Musical, MCU Theory: Kang The Conqueror Is Coming To Phase 5 (Because Of Thanos), Every Tarantino & Rodriguez Grindhouse Movie Ranked From Worst To Best, Addams Family 2 Teaser & First Posters Confirm Halloween 2021 Release, Star Wars: Why Disney Dumped "Dark" and "Gray" Jedi From Canon, James Cameron Confirms Alita: Battle Angel Returns To Theaters This Month, Oakes Fegley & Laura Marano Interview: The War With Grandpa. "The Thing About Jellyfish" follows Suzy (Millie Bobby Brown) as she enters seventh grade. For her Strangers Things performances in season 1 and season 2, Brown received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Parents need to know that The Thing About Jellyfish is a coming-of-age story about seventh-grader Suzy Swanson, whose best friend has just died by drowning.Death and grief are explored in nongraphic, literary detail. Brown is one of the stars of Stranger Things, whose season three arrives July, and stars in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which hits the big-screen May 31. The novel centers on seventh-grader Suzy Swanson, a girl who believes that her best friend’s death was caused by a jellyfish. As for Brown's next film to appear, that would be Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, due out on 31 May.
He's also the founding editor at Vague Visages, and has contributed to RogerEbert.com and Fandor.
Readability Age Range. Benjamin cites The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. 10 to 14 Publisher. She embarks on this incredible journey and learns about life, death, and love. Kahiu wrote and directed the LGBTQ film Rafiki, which made history last year as being the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival even as the movie was banned in her home country due to its themes.
For The Thing About Jellyfish, Brown will collaborate with director Wanuri Kahiu.
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