Billie Eilish already has two Oscars, every for Finest Authentic Tunehowever this one seems like a challenge that at some point might have her in a Finest Actress dialog.
Eilish is hooked up to make her function appearing debut in an adaptation of “The Bell Jar,” the Sylvia Plath semi-autobiographical novel from 1963, which might be directed by one other Oscar winner, Sarah PolleyIndieWire has realized. Focus Options is in talks to amass the bundle.
Polley is writing and directing, and that is her first movie since 2023, when she received the Oscar for Finest Tailored Screenplay for “Girls Speaking.” Pleasure Gorman Wettels (“Little Home on the Prairie,” “13 Causes Why”), who originated the challenge by her firm Pleasure Coalition, is producing the movie together with Plan B Leisure and StudioCanal.
“The Bell Jar” was written by the American poet and is taken into account semi-autobiographical as Plath died of suicide a month after the e-book was revealed after affected by scientific despair. The e-book follows 19-year-old Esther Greenwood as she struggles with a descent into psychological sickness. The e-book was tailored for the display in 1979 as directed by Larry Peerce, and different stars have tried to carry it to the display, with Julia Stiles, Rose McGowan, Kirsten Dunst, and Dakota Fanning all at one level concerned in varied iterations that by no means took off.
Eilish has acted as soon as earlier than, although not in a movie, and never in a lead function. She starred in a 2023 episode of the Amazon collection “Swarm.” She’ll be seen in a documentary live performance movie later this summer season that she co-directed with James Cameron and that was shot in 3D.
For Polley, this might be her fifth function as a director in a profession that additionally contains “Away From Her,” “Take This Waltz,” and “Tales We Inform.” She additionally was most not too long ago the “director” of a movie in an episode of “The Studio” through which she tried and didn’t efficiently get a “oner” shot however stored having Seth Rogen’s studio head getting in her method.
Eilish is represented by WME, Sandbox Leisure, and Excessive Rise PR. Polley is represented by WME, GGA, and Circle Administration. Gorman Wettels is repped by Nina Shaw at Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.
Deadline first reported the information that Focus was boarding the challenge. The InSneider first reported Eilish’s involvement.