Actress Greta Lee (Past Lives, Russian Doll) will make her film directorial debut at Searchlight with The Eyes Are the Best Part, based on Monika Kim's bestselling novel. Lee is writing the script, with Matt Jackson and Joanna Lee producing through Jackson Pictures, Lulu Wang through Local Time and Dani Melia. Kim will exec produce.
Daniel Yu, senior v-p of production, and creative executive Taylor Friedman will be overseeing the project for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to co-heads of production and development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.