EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is being adapted into a Netflix film starring Little Fires Everywhere creator Liz Tigelaar.
The book, which recently spent 54 weeks on the New York Times paperback bestseller list four years after publication and has become a TikTok book phenomenon, follows reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo, who is an unknown reporter, Monique Grant, chooses to tell her life story. Evelyn recounts her time in Hollywood’s Golden Age, her rise to fame and her seven marriages – and reveals breathtaking secrets and lies. But with all of this, one question remains: Why did she choose Monique for her latest confession?
The project is produced by Liza Chasin for 3Dot Productions and Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion. The feature project continues Netflix’s creative partnership with Chasin and 3Dot. EPs are Reid and Margaret Chernin
Tigelaar was most recently the creator, showrunner and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere and was previously the showrunner and EP of Hulu’s Golden Globe-nominated comedy Casual. Tigelaar’s critically acclaimed series Life Unexpected aired on the CW for two seasons. She currently has an overall contract with ABC Signature.
Tigelaar is also adapting another of Reid’s New York Times bestsellers, Malibu Rising, for Hulu and 20th Century Television. Tigelaar serves as an EP on Malibu Rising, with Amy Talkington as the writer. Tigelaar is represented by UTA and Wendy Kirk at Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Reid also wrote Daisy Jones & the Six which is currently in production as a series for Amazon, Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion.
Malibu Rising centers on the Riva family and surfer siblings Nina, Jay Hud and Kit, along with their mother June and father, famous singer Mick Riva. It takes place in the twenty-four hours before Nina Riva’s infamous Riva party, but it’s also a culmination of generations of secrets and trauma.
Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six is about a fictional rock band in the 1970s that charted their rise through the ranks of the music scene in LA and beyond, eventually becoming one of the most legendary bands in the world.
Previously, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was a series in development at Freeform with Reid attached to a pen and Executive Producers with Ilene Chaiken (The L Word, Empire) and Jennifer Beals (The L Word) with Fox 21 Television Studios .