Deadline’s Learn the Screenplay collection spotlighting the 12 months’s most talked-about scripts continues with Kelly Fremon Craig‘s adaptation of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which marks the primary time a e book penned by YA icon Judy Blume has made it to the large display screen.
Fremon Craig directed and wrote the screenplay and reteamed with producer James L. Brooks following their glorious 2016 teen dramatic comedy The Fringe of Seventeen. Like that transfer, the trials and tribulations of a younger woman coming of age take middle stage.
In Are You There God?, Abby Ryder Fortson performs the 11-year-old Margaret, who’s uprooted from her life in New York Metropolis for the suburbs of New Jersey, slogging by means of the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new mates in a brand new faculty.
The pic that additionally stars Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Benie Safdie follows intently the plot of the e book revealed in 1970, a frightening blueprint for Fremon Craig, who recounted at Deadline’s latest Contenders Movie: Los Angeles that she despatched a “love letter” to Blume telling her she wished to adapt the e book.
She additionally mentioned writing the primary draft left her “paralyzed.”
“I respect her a lot,” Fremon Craig mentioned. “And that is her legacy. So it felt actually vital to get it proper. It began to shift for me, as quickly as I mentally shifted to a spot of if I can simply ship the spirit of the e book, whilst I’m making modifications, then that may all have served her work.”
Blume later famous that the ensuing “film is healthier than the e book.”
Lionsgate launched the comedic household drama in April. It has grossed $21.4 million worldwide.
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