The movie adaptation of Michelle Zauner‘s best-selling memoir Crying in H Mart, first introduced as in growth in 2023, is at present on maintain.
Zauner, who was tapped to adapt her story right into a screenplay, is finest often called the frontwoman of the Grammy-nominated indie band Japanese Breakfast. She revealed the halt within the mission in a latest interview and unfold with lux style home SSENSE’s journal.
“Nicely, it’s on pause. There have been points with the Hollywood strikes, and the director stepped away from the mission,” Zauner stated when requested concerning the movie’s progress. “I spent a 12 months engaged on the screenplay, which was a tricky however rewarding course of. I nonetheless have religion it would get made sometime, but it surely’s not taking place anytime quickly. Proper now, I’m specializing in different inventive tasks, so the movie must wait.”
The White Lotus Season 2 star Will Sharpe was introduced because the director for MGM’s Orion Photos mission. The beloved memoir — which spent 60 weeks on the New York Occasions bestseller checklist and has been immensely profitable with a seventeenth subject reprinting in Korea — follows Zauner’s coming-of-age story as a daughter to a Korean mom and Jewish American father, who returns to her small Oregonian city to look after her mother amid her most cancers prognosis. Advised by way of the lenses of Korean delicacies and the ability of music, the ebook traces the oftentimes tumultuous relationship between strict mom and free-spirited daughter.
Sharpe, who has directed plenty of tasks, together with the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring interval drama The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain, will subsequent be seen in Lena Dunham’s rom-com sequence for Netflix, Too A lot, reverse Megan Stalter. As for Zauner, Japanese Breakfast will quickly go on tour in help of the forthcoming album For Melancholy Ladies (& Unhappy Brunettes), due March 21.
Talking with SSENSE, Zauner additionally teased a brand new novel, “The ebook will take at the least two extra years to jot down. I’ve been maintaining a diary for the previous 12 months—over 500,000 phrases of uncooked materials. Subsequent 12 months, I’ll begin weaving it right into a narrative. It’s very completely different from Crying in H Mart as a result of this one’s written in actual time, not retrospectively. It’s going to be an extended course of, however I’m enthusiastic about it.”
