Julia Roberts is set to headline The Bookseller, based on the recent best seller by Cynthia Swanson
Academy Award winner Julia Roberts is set to headline The Bookseller, a big screen adaptation of the novel by Cynthia Swanson. The Hollywood Reporter has the news, bringing word that Crystal City Entertainment has optioned the rights to the story, which blends fantastical elements into a 1960s period drama.
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Published by Harper Collins in 2015, The Bookseller is officially described as follows:
Nothing is as permanent as it appears . . .
Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. She can come and go as she pleases, answering to no one. There was a man once, a doctor named Kevin, but it didn’t quite work out the way Kitty had hoped.
Then the dreams begin.
Denver, 1963: Katharyn Andersson is married to Lars, the love of her life. They have beautiful children, an elegant home, and good friends. It’s everything Kitty Miller once believed she wanted—but it only exists when she sleeps.
Convinced that these dreams are simply due to her overactive imagination, Kitty enjoys her nighttime forays into this alternate world. But with each visit, the more irresistibly real Katharyn’s life becomes. Can she choose which life she wants? If so, what is the cost of staying Kitty, or becoming Katharyn?
As the lines between her worlds begin to blur, Kitty must figure out what is real and what is imagined. And how do we know where that boundary lies in our own lives?
Julia Roberts will also serve as producer on The Bookseller alongside Red Om Films partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill. Crystal City’s Ari Pinchot and Jonathan Rubenstein will also produce.
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