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Jessica Chastain is putting BookTok rumors to rest.
While fans person agelong wished to spot Jessica formed as Celia St. James, a redhead starlet, successful the movie adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the histrion precocious caused a buzz when she politely declined to motion a transcript of the book.
In the viral TikTok, Jessica is seen telling a instrumentality who asked for an autograph of the book, "I can't motion that just because I'm not doing it."
While users speculated the Oscar winner's words meant she was not moving connected the project, Jessica offered a different explanation for the interaction.
"I've been asked aggregate times by fans, to motion books that I'm not attached to contractually," she tweeted April 19. "Because it feels wrong, and similar Im taking recognition for idiosyncratic else's work, I'll accidental I cant motion due to the fact that I'm not doing it. That doesn't mean I've work a atrocious script."
Jessica besides hinted that the doorway isn't closed yet.
"I cognize however excited galore you are astir adaptations," she continued. "Please dont work excessively overmuch into a video. There is nary quality astir anything."
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo follows the beingness of fictional Hollywood prima Evelyn Hugo, whose rivalry with Celia evolves into a adjacent friendship.
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In the past, Jessica has expressed involvement successful learning much astir the project, which Deadline reported past March volition beryllium adapted into a Netflix movie. During an quality on Watch What Happens Live connected Jan. 5, the Molly's Game prima said she's alert of however overmuch fans privation her to represent Celia.
"I bash cognize determination is an online happening astir it," Jessica said astatine the time. "Sure, nonstop maine a script."
Keep scrolling to spot what different books you should work that are being adapted for the screen.
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Based On: Taylor Jenkins-Reid's bestselling caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Camila Morrone, Sebastian Chacon, Nabiyah Be, Josh Whitehouse and Will Harrison
Premieres: March 3 connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Imagine a faux euphony documentary astir the emergence and autumn of a legendary '60s set (think Fleetwood Mac) starring charismatic radical and featuring archetypal euphony with lyrics truthful poignant we privation AIM was inactive a happening truthful we could usage them arsenic our distant messages. Prepare for sex, drugs and stone 'n' rotation with a splash of Reese Witherspoon-approved saccharine beverage arsenic the prima serves arsenic a producer.
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Kay Scarpetta
Based On: Patricia Cornwell's mega-popular bid of the aforesaid sanction that has 26 books successful total
Starring: Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis
Premieres: TBD connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: If it's based connected a publication and Kidman stars successful it, we volition binge the s--t retired of it. (See: Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing.) Add successful the information that the Oscar victor and Curtis—who bought the Kay Scarpetta publication rights backmost successful June 2021—will beryllium playing crime-fighting sisters and it's already go our favourite caller amusement of the year.
HBO
White House Plumbers
Based On: The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson, Lena Headey, Kiernan Shipka, Ike Barinholtz, David Krumholtz, Rich Sommer, Judy Greer, Kim Coates, Gary Cole, John Carroll Lynch and Kathleen Turner
Premieres: March connected HBO
Why We're Excited: Um, bash you spot that stacked formed list?! The constricted five-episode bid is expected to look astatine the events straight before, during, and aft the Watergate scandal, with Harrelson and Theroux playing Nixon's governmental advisors (and inadvertent saboteurs) E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively.
HBO
Love and Death
Based On: The bid is inspired by the publication Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death successful the Suburbs, arsenic good arsenic a postulation of articles from Texas Monthly (Love & Death In Silicon Prairie, Part I & II).
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Krysten Ritter, Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit, Lily Rabe, Keir Gilchrist, Elizabeth Marvel and Tom Pelphrey
Premieres: April 27 connected HBO Max
Why We're Excited: Ax murderers, truthful blistery close now. First, Jessica Biel played Dallas-area slayer Candy Montgomery successful Hulu's existent transgression drama Candy. And now, Olsen is acceptable to play the housewife-turned-murderer, a relation her caller turns successful Marvel's WandaVision and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness decidedly prepared her for.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Based On: The Lightning Thief, the archetypal publication the beloved phantasy series written by Rick Riordan
Starring: Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri, Leah Sava Jeffries, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally and Timm Sharp
Premieres: Early 2024 connected Disney+
Why We're Excited: Confession: While we loved the movie franchise that starred Logan Lerman, we bash deliberation the root worldly is amended suited for the TV treatment and we're truthful blessed to beryllium re-enrolling astatine Camp Half-Blood for much teen deity drama. Plus, Lin-Manuel Miranda is guest-starring arsenic Hermes and we privation to beryllium in on the streaming work wherever that happens.
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American Born Chinese
Based On: Gene Luen Yang's 2006 graphic novel
Starring: Ben Wang, Michelle Yeoh, Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu
Premieres: TBD connected Disney+
Why We're Excited: An enactment bid astir a conflict betwixt Gods of Chinese mythology starring aboriginal Oscar victor Yeoh and respective of her Everything Everywhere All astatine Once co-stars? The lone happening we don't similar astir this is that we can't ticker it close now.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Based On: Laura Dave's 2021 best-selling caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Angourie Rice
Premieres: TBD connected Apple TV+
Why We're Excited: The Alias prima is returning to TV! Garner stepped successful to regenerate Julia Roberts as a pistillate searching for her missing hubby aft Roberts had to driblet retired owed to a scheduling struggle successful this play bid produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Amazon Prime
The Power
Based On: Creator Naomi Alderman's 2016 caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Auli'i Cravalho, John Leguizamo, Halle Bush, Toheeb Jimoh, Daniela Vega, Nico Hiraga and Ria Zmitowicz
Premieres: March 31 connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Imagine a satellite successful which each teenage miss successful the satellite develops the powerfulness to electrocute radical astatine volition and it's thing that can't beryllium taken distant from them. Now ideate if they larn however to awaken that quality successful older women arsenic well. Like Beyonce erstwhile asked: Who tally the world?
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Three Women
Based On: The non-fiction bestseller of the aforesaid sanction by Lisa Taddeo.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood and Sean Meehan
Premieres: TBA on Starz
Why We're Excited: One of the astir applicable books of 2019, the bid volition research pistillate tendency arsenic it follows a trio of women who are connected a clang people to radically overturn their lives. While Showtime initially canceled the amusement contempt accumulation already being completed, Starz swooped in, answering our literate conflict cry.
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