Hannah Marks’ feature directorial debut hit theaters less than a week ago and she just lined up her next gig. She’ll follow up “After Everything” with “The Swimsuit Issue” for LD Entertainment and American High, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Randall Green’s (“The Stand-In”) script was featured on the 2014 Black List, a survey of execs’ favorite unproduced screenplays.
“The Swimsuit Issue” centers on a geeky high schooler and aspiring photographer who “attempts to create a ‘Swimsuit Issue’ featuring his high school classmates in hopes of raising enough money to go to summer camp,” the source summarizes.
Marks co-wrote and co-directed “After Everything,” a well reviewed drama about a couple who speeds up their relationship when one of them is diagnosed with cancer. She also co-wrote “Banana Split,” a comedy about BFFs whose relationship is threatened when one begins dating the other’s ex. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in September.
Also an actress, Marks’ on-screen credits include “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” “Weeds,” and “Awkward.”
“At first, I was just another actor with a script. If you live in L.A. or New York, you know there are a million of us,” Marks has said. “My goal became to be so good that no one can ignore you. . . . I want to force people to keep turning the page,” she explained. She worked on her writing by watching films while reading copies of their script that she downloaded. “I would read the first 15 pages and then watch the first 15 minutes, and do that all the way through until I finished,” she recalled. “I’d think about what changed from script to screen and why.”