Celeste Ng's 'Everything I Never Told You' Will Also Be Hitting the Screen

Mar. 18 2020, Updated 8:32 p.m. ET

Hulu's latest miniseries free up is Little Fires Everywhere, in keeping with the bestselling novel by way of Celeste Ng, and it is temporarily turning into the controversy of the town.

And whilst many lovers are loving this Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington TV adaptation, which was picked up through Reese after the Big Little Lies big name read the page-turner in her ebook club, we would be remiss if we did not permit you to know that Celeste is also the author of any other e-book—and that it is also being made right into a movie!

Yes, Celeste Ng's 2014 debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, which used to be on the New York Times bestseller record for Forty seven weeks (i.e., simply 5 weeks quick of a whole 12 months) is getting made right into a movie as neatly.

Keep reading for the entirety we know about Everything I Never Told You, the movie.

Celeste Ng showed that Hollywood royalty is attached to the 'Everything I Never Told You' movie.

If you've learn Everything I Never Told You, we probably do not have to let you know that the fast moving novel could be perfect as a chain or movie. After many fanatics tweeted this to the creator herself, Celeste took to Twitter to announce some awe-inspiring information.

"Good news," she wrote. "It's being adapted into a feature film—with Julia Roberts attached to play Marilyn!" 

Details surrounding the mission stay scarce, even though Deadline and Variety confirm that LD Entertainment optioned the rights to the novel back in 2015, teaming up with Oscar-nominated manufacturer Michael De Luca and screenwriter Julia Cox to conform the radical.

What is 'Everything I Never Told You' about?

Everything I Never Told You received a lot of awards and accolades when it got here out in 2014. Amazon named it the Book of the Year, and it gained the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award, and the American Library Association's Alex Award, among other guide prizes.

Like Little Fires Everywhere, Everything I Never Told You is also set within the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio—simply 20 years earlier. While the Hulu series is set in 1997 and 1998, the events that spread in Everything I Never Told You happen in 1977.

The tale follows a Chinese-American circle of relatives, the Lees, who are, as Variety places it, "shocked by the inexplicable drowning of their seemingly perfect daughter," Lydia, "only to discover they didn't know her at all."

We get throughout the heads of Lydia's oldsters, Marilyn (who we can't wait to look delivered to existence through Julia Roberts) and James, who even have many secrets and techniques they have been protecting from each and every other and their kids. And we additionally discover the views of Lydia's surviving siblings, Nathan and Hannah, in the months leading up to their sister's loss of life, and in the time that follows. 

"Through stories of her parents," continues the outlet, "the reader sees how their unfulfilled dreams became pressures they placed on their children — while [Lydia's] older brother suspects their neighbor is responsible for his sister's death."

The novel is a page-turner we honestly can't recommend sufficient (this writer burned thru it in 3 days), and studying it now will make it all of the extra a laugh when we can all collectively examine the movie to the e-book down the road.

While we look ahead to Everything I Never Told You to get made, you should definitely watch Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng's 2d bestselling introduction, streaming on Hulu lately.

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