Gwyneth Paltrow to Star In STRANGERS at Netflix Based on the Bestselling Memoir by Belle Burden
Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare In love, Iron Man) has found her next film role in the movie adaptation of Belle Burden’s hit book “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage.”
Netflix landed rights to the memoir this week in a heated six-way auction. UTA brokered the deal for Burden, whose New York Times bestseller captivated the country this year with a devastating and candid look at the dissolution of a marriage.
Producer Stacey Sher is on board to handle the project, with acclaimed screenwriter Heidi Schreck set to adapt the script. Paltrow will star and executive produce.
Burden is an immigration attorney and the granddaughter of society matriarch Babe Paley. Her memoir kicks off six years ago, when Burden sat “safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together — building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken.
Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of 20 years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized.” The larger work, per publisher The Dial Press, “revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was.
As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal.”
via: Variety