Benny Safdie, Rachel McAdams be a part of adaptation of Are You There God?

By Express News Service
Uncut Gems co-director Benny Safdie is all set to star alongside Rachel McAdams within the movie adaptation of writer Judy Blume’s basic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen), the film may even function Ant-Man star Abby Ryder Fortson and Oscar winner Kathy Bates.

According to Collider, the coming-of-age story is about Margaret Simon (Fortson), a sixth-grader who questions every little thing about adolescence and puberty, and is looking out the universe for no matter solutions she will be able to discover.

With her mom (McAdams) and grandmother (Bates) making an attempt to information her by a time when every little thing is altering, they too discover that you just by no means cease questioning your path and defining what’s significant in your life.

Safdie, identified for films like Good Time and Pieces of a Woman, will painting Margaret’s father, Herb.James L Brooks and his Gracie Films banner will produce the movie alongside Julie Ansell, Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks, Fremon Craig and Blume.

Notably, Safdie will subsequent seem in Paul Thomas Anderson’s subsequent, reverse Bradley Cooper, in addition to in Showtime’s TV collection The Curse with Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder. He most lately joined the forged of Disney Plus’ upcoming Star Wars’ spin-off Obi-Wan Kenobi collection.