Judy Blume has shaped generations of readers with classics like “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” “Forever,” and “Tiger Eyes.” With a slew of adaptations based on her books on the way, including a series from Mara Brock Akil based on “Forever,” Blume herself is stepping into the spotlight: Amazon Prime Video and Imagine Documentaries have a doc about the author in the works. Variety broke the news.
Currently untitled, the film is “framed as a coming-of-age tale of Blume,” and will cover 50 years and many of her classic, bestselling titles. The doc “will also examine her impact on pop culture at large, and the occasional controversies over Blume’s frankness about puberty and sex. In total, her 29 books have sold more than 90 million copies and have been printed in 32 languages,” the source notes.
Leah Wolchok, the director of the Emmy-winning doc “Semi Serious,” will helm the project with Davina Pardo, a producer on “Semi Serious.”
Blume said that from “[my] first meeting with Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok, I knew I’d found a team who were passionate about this project. It can be scary to open your life and work to strangers. Once Imagine Docs came aboard I felt it all come together. ‘OK,’ I thought, ‘maybe this was meant to be.’”
Other Blume projects in the pipeline include a film based on “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” from “The Edge of Seventeen” writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, and a series based on “Wifey” from “SMILF’s” Frankie Shaw.
