Liz Tigelaar To Adapt Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Novel ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ for Netflix Film

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has taken the chance to visit the golden age of Hollywood with its plans to adapt the best-selling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by author Taylor Jenkins Reid. The streaming service announced Thursday with the help of Little Fires Everywhere creator, showrunner, and executive producer Liz Tigelaar. She plans to write the film with producers including Liza Chasin of 3Dot productions and Brad Mendelson of Circle of Confusion. Reid and Margaret Chernin will executive produce. Previously, the novel was in development for a Freeform series with The L Word executive producers Ilene Chaiken and Jennifer Beals. 

The novel itself follows the story of Evelyn Hugo a reclusive, iconic Hollywood starlet who enlists a young and unknown reporter, Monique Grant, to write her life’s story- following her rise to fame during the golden age of Hollywood. Always the subject of tabloids, Evelyn reveals details about her seven marriages that even the public doesn’t know. She spills the secrets of behind the scenes of Hollywood, her marriages, and why she chose Monique for her final confession.  

Evelyn Hugo marks the latest Reid library project to get a film development. Reid’s recent novel Malibu Rising is being developed for a Hulu series. Her other best-selling novel Daisy Jones and the Six was also acquired by Amazon for Reese Witherspoons’ Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion for television production, Riley Keough and Sam Claflin will star.