Emma Thompson and Chris O'Dowd Join HOW TO BUILD A GIRL

Caitlin Moran’s best-selling book How to Build a Girl is being adapted for the big screen. Not only that, but the film adaptation has picked up some amazing talent. THR is reporting that Emma Thompson has joined the film along with one of my favorite actors Chris O’Dowd (Thor: The Dark World, Molly’s Game). These two actors will be joining Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Beanie Feldstein, and Sarah Solemani.

Here’s a description of the story:

How to Build a Girl, set in 1993, sees Feldstein play Johanna Morrigan, a smart, opinionated and overweight 16-year-old. Hormones raging, she is desperate to get out of her hometown and make a name for herself -- which she does, reinventing herself as Dolly Wilde, a rock music critic. Gaining notoriety as an enfant terrible, she finally figures out "how to build a girl." But is this the girl she wanted to build?

Johanna’s “unconventional parents” will be played by Considine and Solemani and her music magazine editor will be played by Thompson. Alison Owen of Monumental Pictures considers the film lucky to have gotten Thompson to join the picture:

We had fantasized about Emma Thompson playing the editor since we first spoke with Caitlin about this project -- I think Caitlin might have cut the scene if Emma hadn’t agreed! Thank goodness we struck lucky. We feel blessed.

I’ll be honest, they had me at the casting of O’Dowd, but this may actually be a fun film. Maybe I’ll even pick up the book.