Blake Lively To Direct ‘Seconds’ Adaptation as Feature Directorial Debut, Edgar Wright Writing
Blake Lively is assembling her first movie from the director’s chair.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Gossip Girl and A Simple Favor actress will be directing Seconds, an adaptation of the Bryan Lee O’Malley graphic novel of the same name, published in 2014. Moreover, Edgar Wright, who already adapted another graphic novel from O’Malley in 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, wrote the screenplay and will produce the movie along with Marc Platt.
From Wikipedia, here’s the synopsis of the source material:
“Published on July 15, 2014, by Ballantine Books, ‘Seconds’ tells the story of Katie Clay, head chef at a prospering restaurant named Seconds, who obtains the ability to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom, and falling asleep. Abusing the power to make her life perfect, Katie ends up creating more problems for herself.”
While this will be Lively’s feature directorial debut, it will not be the first project she directs. Last year, she helmed the music video for Taylor Swift’s I Bet You Think About Me, which would go on to be nominated for Video of the Year at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Searchlight will be producing and distributing the project. Lively has not been in any project since the pandemic started, though that could change soon. No actors have been attached yet, but with the script already in place and Blake Lively not being very busy at the moment, the project could be in front of the cameras later this year.
Wright continues to attach himself to projects, though at least this time he’s already written the script. After the release of Last Night in Soho, the director has not yet announced which project he’ll be directing next — he’s been teasing a Baby Driver sequel for years, but that seems unlikely nowadays, given the whole Ansel Elgort controversy. In the past couple of years, he’s also signed on to an adaptation of the best-selling novel The Chain as well as an adaptation of Simon Stephenson’s 2020 novel Set My Heart To Five.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
