Judy Blume has formed generations of readers with classics like “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” “Ceaselessly,” and “Tiger Eyes.” With a slew of variations primarily based on her books on the way in which, together with a collection from Mara Brock Akil primarily based on “Ceaselessly,” Blume herself is entering into the highlight: Amazon Prime Video and Think about Documentaries have a doc concerning the creator within the works. Selection broke the information.
Presently untitled, the movie is “framed as a coming-of-age story of Blume,” and can cowl 50 years and plenty of of her traditional, bestselling titles. The doc “may also study her impression on popular culture at giant, and the occasional controversies over Blume’s frankness about puberty and intercourse. In whole, her 29 books have offered greater than 90 million copies and have been printed in 32 languages,” the supply notes.
Leah Wolchok, the director of the Emmy-winning doc “Semi Critical,” will helm the venture with Davina Pardo, a producer on “Semi Critical.”
Blume stated that from “[my] first assembly with Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok, I knew I’d discovered a staff who had been keen about this venture. It may be scary to open your life and work to strangers. As soon as Think about Docs got here aboard I felt all of it come collectively. ‘OK,’ I assumed, ‘possibly this was meant to be.’”
Different Blume tasks within the pipeline embody a movie primarily based on “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” from “The Fringe of Seventeen” writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, and a collection primarily based on “Wifey” from “SMILF’s” Frankie Shaw.
Supply: Women And Hollywood