Jane Green has written a whopping 18 novels, and 17 of them have been bestsellers. One of her books is finally getting the big screen treatment: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired the rights to “The Beach House,” Deadline reports.
Published in 2008, “The Beach House” centers on “65-year-old eccentric Nan who opens up her Nantucket home to tenants to combat her financial troubles,” Deadline summarizes. “Facing the realities of happily-ever-after not happening, Nan and her new group of strangers find themselves gaining new leases on life as they come together despite their differences.”
It’ll certainly be refreshing to see a film with a female protagonist over the age of 50. The percentage of male characters in their 50s (17%) was almost twice that of female characters in their 50s (9%) in the top 100 grossing films of 2015, according to research from Dr. Martha Lauzen and the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film.
Green has identified “The Beach House” as her favorite of the books she’s written. The author will act as a writing consultant on the project, and Meghan Hughes (“The Clean Up”) will pen the script.
“I write because otherwise the stories in my head would drive me mad,” Green, whose works have been translated into 25 languages, has said. “And I write because it’s cathartic, and because I can — it has helped me immeasurably in sorting out my feelings about seminal moments in my life. And really, it is people that inspire me, [their] emotions and how they deal with the things that life throws at them.”
