Another Meg Wolitzer adaptation is on the way, and this one is headed by Nicole Kidman. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Oscar winner’s production company, Blossom Films, is joining forces with producer Lynda Obst (“Good Girls Revolt,” “Interstellar”) to develop a feature based on Wolitzer’s latest novel, “The Female Persuasion.” Kidman is attached to topline the pic. Upcoming Glenn Close-starrer “The Wife,” set to bow August 3, is also based on one of Wolitzer’s novels.
Released on April 3, “The Female Persuasion” “centers on a shy college freshman named Greer who hopes her life is changed by Faith Frank, a central pillar of the woman’s movement for decades,” EW summarizes. The New York Times best-seller has received strong reviews.
Kidman just won two Emmys for starring in and exec producing HBO’s adaptation of Liane Moriaty’s best-selling novel “Big Little Lies.” The murder mystery is currently in production on its second season, which will be directed by Andrea Arnold.
Blossom Films is behind “Rabbit Hole,” “Monte Carlo,” and “The Family Fang.” Kidman appeared in all of the pics save for “Monte Carlo,” a teen comedy about Americans traveling to Monaco.
Kidman’s upcoming on-screen credits include Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” a crime drama about a police detective, Rebecca Miller’s “She Came To Me,” a comedic drama set in the world of modern art, and “The Goldfinch,” an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. She’s pledged to work with a female director every 18 months. “As an actor you’re only as good as the things you’re offered. And there just weren’t any women offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren’t women offering you things because they don’t have the opportunities,” she explained. “I work to raise money for women’s cancers; I use my voice for violence against women. And so I was like, ‘I need to be part of the movement that will, hopefully, change the statistics in my field.’”