Richard Linklater In Talks To Direct ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette’
By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2015 1:30 pm EST
THR reports that the new Linklater film was scripted by writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars) based on Semple’s best-selling novel.
The novel uses some not-quite-standard methods of giving out information, such as “email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence” which offers some chances for a screenplay that can play with narrative structure. That, combined with the young heroine and the thrust of the plot makes for an interesting package.
Here’s an account of the novel’s plot:
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle–and people in general–has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence–creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s role in an absurd world.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson (The Hunger Games) are producing alongside Annapurna’s Megan Ellison.
