Will Sharpe will direct the movie adaptation of Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner’s ebook Crying in H Mart, as Individuals notes. “It was a frightening activity, to seek out somebody I may belief with the retelling of such a private story,” Zauner mentioned of Sharpe in a press release. “Somebody who may honor my mom’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and nonetheless make the approaching of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie city appear actual and funky.” Learn her full assertion under.
Zauner revealed her “Crying in H Mart” essay in The New Yorker in August 2018. She rapidly signed a ebook deal and launched the full-length Crying in H Mart in April 2021. The ebook debuted at No. 2 on The New York Occasions’ best-seller checklist and spent 60 weeks on the checklist.
In 2021, only a few days after Zauner launched her album Jubilee, it was introduced that MGM’s Orion Photos acquired the rights to the Crying in H Mart adaptation. Zauner advised Consequence final 12 months that she had completed the primary draft of her screenplay.
Will Sharpe starred as Ethan Spiller within the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus. He wrote and directed the flicks The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain and The Darkest Universe, and he’s the creator and director of the Channel 4 sitcom Flowers.
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Michelle Zauner:
It was a frightening activity, to seek out somebody I may belief with the retelling of such a private story. Somebody who may honor my mom’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and nonetheless make the approaching of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie city appear actual and funky.
In that spirit, I’m so relieved to have discovered Will Sharpe and am past delighted that he would be the director of Crying in H Mart. I imagine his sensitivity, as a director and an actor, and his personal private expertise, having grown up between two cultures, will likely be super property.
His work on Flowers and The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain communicate to his potential to conjure lofty, susceptible performances, to seek out humor and charm throughout the tragedy of the on a regular basis. They’re a treasured assortment of abilities that make him the right match for this movie.