Billie Eilish is in talks to make her function movie debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Path’s beloved 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in response to trade publication InSneider. The screenplay is being written by onetime actress Sarah Polley, who received the Finest Tailored Screenplay Oscar for the script to 2022’s Ladies Speaking.
Per the report, The Bell Jar will probably be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Leisure and StudioCanal, with distribution from Focus Options. The e book chronicles the declining psychological well being of a Nineteen Fifties-era feminine faculty scholar working at a girls’s journal after which returning to her New England hometown.
It was beforehand made right into a maligned 1979 movie starring Marilyn Hassett and Julie Harris, which was savaged by up to date critics. The unique novel was printed one month earlier than Plath dedicated suicide.
Eilish beforehand acted within the 2023 Prime Video sequence Swarm, appeared as herself on Sesame Road and hosted Saturday Night time Reside in 2021. That very same yr, she launched each the live performance movie A Love Letter to Los Angeles and the documentary The World’s a Little Blurry. Eilish has additionally received Academy Awards for her contributions to the Barbie and No Time To Die soundtracks.
As beforehand reported, she stars and co-directs (with James Cameron) the live performance movie HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), which will probably be launched Could 8 by Paramount, Darkroom Data, Interscope Movies and Lightstorm Leisure.
