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Leslye Headland to Direct Netflix’s Feature Film Adaption of 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo'

Evelyn Hugo Book Cover

  • Leslye Headland to direct the feature film adaptation of the bestselling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 

  • Director: Leslye Headland (The Acolyte, Russian Doll, Sleeping with Other People, Bachelorette)

  • Writer: Liz Tigelaar (Tiny Beautiful Things, Little Fires Everywhere)

  • Producers: Liza Chasin for 3Dot Productions, Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion

  • Executive Producers: Taylor Jenkins Reid, Margaret Chernin

  • Synopsis: In a long awaited interview with a young journalist, Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, pulls back the curtain on her seven marriages, and as she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths about her own life and the lives of everyone around her.

  • You can find Leslye Headland’s preferred Getty image for purchase HERE and you can download the book cover HERE.