Rachel McAdams to star in film adaptation of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
The coming-of-age novel past Judy Blume – Are You In that location, God? Information technology's Me, Margaret – read past many a pre-teen girl throughout the decades, is prepare to get a film starring Rachel McAdams.
McAdams, star of films such as The Notebook and Mean Girls, will play Margaret's female parent, Barbara, while young actress Abby Ryder Fortson, who acted in the Ant-Human being films, will play the titular character.
The 12-year-old Fortson told Entertainment Weekly (EW): "Margaret and I are really similar. I honey her. She'south so goofy and awesome. She's all heart and love and but wants to take friends and figure out who she is."
Kelly Fremon Craig, who directed Border Of Seventeen, volition write and directly this adaptation. The film, which is expected to begin production in April, will besides see Blume serve as a producer.
She said in a statement, "Every bit the cast comes together my excitement grows. Abby is funny and tender, stiff yet vulnerable. She IS Margaret. And Rachel – wow! – does it get any better? A funny, loving, sexy, real woman who is also a mom. I can't wait to see these two playing mother and girl."
Blume's book was published in 1970 and tells the tale of a young girl who is searching for answers while going through puberty. Her other books include Tales Of A Fourth Course Nothing and Blubber.
She had rejected previous suggestions to plough Information technology's Me, Margaret into a film but agreed when she received a persuasive call from Fremon Craig terminal year. "I'yard a gut-feeling kind of person, and I barbarous in honey with them both," she told EW, referring to the director and her mentor James L Brooks. "This is a squad who cares about the book and understands it – I thought, allow'due south do this while I'm still around to enjoy it."
McAdams will next be seen in the Physician Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which also stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen.
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