Anne Hathaway to Star in Film Adaptation of LIVE FAST DIE HOT
After Anne Hathaway won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Les Miserables, she could feel the way fans and pop culture at large were sort of turning against her. (People like to build actresses up and then tear them down.) So she kept her head down for a little while, and then started popping up again around the time of Interstellar and now has a few really interesting projects lined up, including Colossal and Ocean's Eight.
Deadline reports that she's also just become attached to a new movie, an adaptation of Jenny Mollen's memoir called Live Fast Die Hot. I'll let the book's Amazon description do the talking:
Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her life was exciting, sexy, a little eccentric, and one hundred percent impulsive. She had a husband who embraced her crazy—who understood her need to occasionally stalk around the house in his ex-girlfriend’s old beach caftans and to invite their drug dealer to Passover seder (so he wouldn’t feel like they were using him only for drugs).
Then they had their son, Sid, and overnight, Jenny was forced to grow up: to be responsible, to brush her hair, to listen to her voicemail.
Live Fast Die Hot is a collection of stories about what happens when you realize that some things are more important than crafting the perfect tweet. It follows Jenny to Morocco, where she embarks on a quest to prove to herself that she can travel alone without reenacting a plotline from Taken. It shows her confronting demons—most of them from childhood, a few from the spirit realm. And it culminates in Peru, where Jenny decides that maybe the cure for her anxiety as a mom lies at the bottom of a cup of ayahuasca.
Hilarious, outlandish, and surprisingly affecting, Live Fast Die Hot reminds you that even if you aren’t cut out for parenting, at least you can be better at it than your mother.
Hathaway drew criticisms for showcasing symptoms of the over-eager "theater kid" type of personality, and though this isn't quite the same thing, it feels like she'll be able to lean into that a little bit in the beginning of this movie and then narratively transition into something else; if those other upcoming films beat this one to the big screen and don't really register, this could be the movie that changes the public perception of the actress and swings it back to the other side of the pendulum.