A film adaptation is in development of the novel American Fantasy by Emma Straub, author and co-owner of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Variety reported that the book was optioned by Elisabeth Moss and and Lindsey McManus's Love & Squalor Pictures, who will produce the film with Straub as an executive producer. Writer, cast, and distributor will be named later.
Published this year, American Fantasy "follows Annie, a recently divorced woman who boards a nostalgia cruise headlined by the '90s boy band that soundtracked her adolescence--only to find herself unexpectedly reckoning with who she was and who she still wants to be," Variety noted.
"Emma's honest yet humorous portrayal of the humbling experience of being a fan is so rare and genuinely fun to read that we knew we had to find a way to bring it to screen," Moss and McManus said in a joint statement.
Straub added: "Elisabeth Moss has talent spilling out of every one of her pores, and I feel delighted to have been caught in the tractor beam of her gaze. What luck, to have such a tenacious force on the side of this story! I am gobsmacked."