Veteran screenwriter Tiffany Paulsen will adapt In a Holidaze, based on the 2020 holiday rom-com novel by Christina Lauren, the pen name for longtime writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, Deadline reported. The project, which has been billed as "Love Actually meets Groundhog Day," is in early development at Netflix.
Paulsen recently made her film directorial debut with Winter Spring Summer or Fall, which starred Jenna Ortega and world premiered at this year's Tribeca Festival. She is currently adapting Lynne Painter's romance Mr. Wrong Number, with an eye to direct.
Alloy Entertainment's president and CCO Leslie Morgenstein will produce In a Holidaze alongside the company's executive v-p, film, Elysa Koplovitz Dutton.