We’ve seen a lot of actors cross over into the world of directing and the latest name to make the jump is Blake Lively (“The Town“). She’s landed a high-profile genre project that will see her collaborate with an unlikely screenwriter.
Lively is making her feature film directing debut with “Seconds” according to The Hollywood Reporter and is teaming with Edgar Wright (“Shaun of The Dead“) who will write on the new project at Searchlight Pictures. Lively previously helmed the Taylor Swift music video “I Bet You Think About Me.”
This will be something of a “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” reunion as the British filmmaker is adapting the graphic novel that was penned by Bryan Lee O’Malley, who created ‘Scott Pilgrim.’
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“Seconds” focuses on Katie, a talented young chef that has the power to fix past mistakes, but this powerful ability to change events may end up threatening the life she had imagined, along with time and space.
It’s unclear if Lively will star in the film or simply stay behind the camera, but there is a possibility that she ends up taking the lead role.
Here is a synopsis of the original graphic novel:
Katie Clay has it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Clay receives the power to fix her past mistakes via writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom, and falling asleep. Clay becomes too eager to fix every little aspect of her life and before long, her newfound ability begins to create new problems that threaten not only to take her further and further from the life she initially had but the very fabric of time and space itself.
This will Wright’s first writing gig that he won’t direct himself since working on “Ant-Man” and “The Adventures of Tintin.” The busy filmmaker was recently behind the time-bending thriller “Last Night In Soho” while also developing a remake of Stephen King‘s “The Running Man“ and is still mulling over a sequel to “Baby Driver.”