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Anne Hathaway is about to star within the movie adaptation of a well-liked fan-fiction guide impressed by Harry Kinds, The Thought of You.
Based mostly on Robinne Lee’s hit 2017 debut novel of the identical identify, the film, which shall be aired on Prime Video, will see the 39-year-old actress within the lead as Sophie, a 40-year-old divorced mom whose husband left her for a youthful girl, in keeping with Deadline.
After he cancels a visit with their 15-year-old daughter to Coachella, Sophie steps in and takes {the teenager} to the pageant the place she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of the world’s hottest boy band August Moon.
Hayes is loosely primarily based on Harry and August Moon is loosely primarily based on One Course.
Nonetheless, whereas the Watermelon Sugar singer’s connection to the guide is what has excited followers, the writer is set to level out that the main focus of the story ought to be Sophie’s journey with ageing and ‘rediscovering herself’.
‘This was by no means presupposed to be a guide about Harry Kinds,’ Robinne beforehand instructed Vogue.
‘It was presupposed to be a narrative a couple of girl approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, simply on the level that society historically writes ladies off as fascinating and viable and entire.’
When requested if Harry was the inspiration behind the guide, Robinne mentioned: ‘Impressed is a robust phrase…
‘A couple of years in the past, my husband was away on enterprise and I used to be up late browsing music movies on YouTube after I got here throughout the face of a boy [Harry] I’d by no means seen in a band I’d by no means paid consideration to, and it was so aesthetically good it took me abruptly.
‘It was like…artwork,’ she mentioned in a 2017 interview with blogger Deborah Kalb.
‘I spent a great hour or so Googling and making an attempt to determine who this child was and in doing so I found that he usually dated older ladies, and so the seed was planted.’
The movie shall be produced by Robinne alongside Anne, director Michael Showalter (The Massive Sick, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Dropout), Cathy Schulman, Gabrielle Union, Kian Gass, Eric Hayes, Jordana Mollick.
Jennifer Westfeldt will govt produce and write the script.
The guide, which has been known as a ‘sleeper hit’, has seen gross sales enhance yearly since its launch and likewise skilled a 20% rise in gross sales in 2019.
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