Elizabeth Chomko will follow up her 2018 feature directorial debut “What They Had” with another intergenerational story. She’s locked in to helm an adaptation of Bess Kalb’s memoir “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me” for Sight Unseen, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.

Published by Knopf March 17, the book recounts “both family lore and family secrets” to tell the story of “four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them,” the source details. Kalb, an Emmy-nominated writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force-irrepressible, glamorous, and unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at 90, Bobby died. In ‘Nobody Will Tell You This But Me,’ Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.”

Kalb is penning the adaptation and is among the project’s exec producers. Chomko is a producer on the pic.

Featuring Hilary Swank and Blythe Danner, “What They Had” tells the story of a woman who returns home to help her family cope with their ailing matriarch. The drama premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

“Be undeniable. Consider logistics, characters actors will want to play, and economics. Give your work its best chance,” Chomko urged when we asked her advice for female filmmakers. “Aim not to be liked but to be respected. Don’t ask for permission. Be grateful, but remember it’s a job we’re hired to do, not a favor we’re given. Above all,” she emphasized, “support and be supported by other women. Go out of your way for this. Be as empathetic and forgiving as possible with them. We’re much too hard on each other.”