In March 2022, Netflix announced that it would produce a film adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's best-selling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The story, about a fictional Hollywood star named Evelyn Hugo, is said to be inspired by the life of the legendary Elizabeth Taylor, who was married to seven different men.
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After the novel went viral on BookTok in 2022, it sold over 500,000 copies that year, despite the book only being published in 2017.
The streamer subsequently announced that Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland would direct the film, with Liz Tigelaar attached to write the screenplay. In 2023, another of Reid's novels was adapted into a popular Prime Video series. Daisy Jones & the Six, starring Riley Keough and Sam Claflin, only added to the buzz surrounding The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo follows aspiring journalist Monique Grant, who is assigned to interview one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time: the one and only Evelyn Hugo. Monique gets an even bigger surprise when the 79-year-old actress asks her to write the full story of her life, detailing her seven infamous marriages and her rise to fame. Despite being known for her romantic entanglements with men, Evelyn eventually reveals that the true love of her life is her best friend and fellow Hollywood starlet Celia St. James.
