EXCLUSIVE: Lizzy Greene (Ransom Canyon) and Harry Collett (Home of the Dragon) have been confirmed because the leads in coming-of-age love story Straightforward, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Tammara Webber.
Australian director and producer Luke Eve, who is thought for the web-series Low Life and Excessive Life in addition to the 2020 function movie I Met A Woman, directs the film which lately wrapped principal pictures in Malta.
Producers are Ryan Hamilton (Lodge Mumbai, Possessor), Addam Bramich (Poker Face, Ice Fall, Shiver) and Volodymyr Artemenko (A Working Man, Spouse and Canine, Shiver) in addition to writer Anna Todd (Shiver), whose writing credit embody the YA romance collection After.
Greene, who additionally serves as an government producer, stars as Jacqueline Wallace, a school freshman pressured to rebuild her life after a traumatic occasion, whereas Collett performs Lucas Maxfield, the enigmatic classmate with a troubled previous who turns into an surprising supply of power and connection.
Self-published by Webber in 2012, Straightforward was heralded as a groundbreaking work within the new grownup style which was beginning to emerge at the moment.
Publishing rights have been snapped up by Penguin/Razorbill for the UK and Penguin/Berkley for the U.S and the novel has additionally since been translated into greater than 20 languages.
The manufacturing famous how the work has continued to resonate with readers over the previous decade, for its trustworthy depiction of trauma restoration and the facility of self-empowerment and love.
“We optioned Straightforward a few years in the past as we adored Tammara’s e book and we’re very proud to deliver this undertaking to life with Luke on the helm and we couldn’t have imagined a greater Jacqueline and Lucas in Lizzy and Harry,” stated Hamilton.
“Lizzy and Harry deliver each vulnerability and energy to their performances—precisely what this story calls for.” stated Bramich.
Webber, who wrote one other three novels in the identical collection, which got here to be often known as the Contours of the Coronary heart collection, additionally praised the lead actors in addition to Eve’s route.
“I’m thrilled to have Lizzy and Harry take my lead characters from web page to display below Luke’s expert steering and imaginative and prescient. What a spectacular crew,” she stated.
Producing companions Hamilton, Bramich and Artemenko have a raft of options in post-production together with survival thrillers Zipline and Ascent in addition to Shiver, an adaptation of the primary e book within the best-selling younger grownup fantasy collection written by Maggie Stiefvater.
Their subsequent manufacturing shall be Spring Ladies, an adaptation of writer Todd’s modern-day retelling of Louisa Might Alcott’s Little Girls.
Greene is represented by Verve Expertise and Literary Company, Courageous Artists Administration, & Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Collett by Curtis Brown Group and Lucy Popkin at GGSSC; Eve by Feig Finkel and Webber by Jane Dystel of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
Hamilton, Bramich and Artemenko are represented by Joseph Lanius and Jay Adelino of Convergence Media Legislation.
