Nearly fifty years after Judy Blume penned Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, the beloved young-adult novel is getting a film adaptation. Blume had rejected bids for the rights to her classic novel for years, but she has finally approved a project from producer James L. Brooks and Kelly Fremon Craig. The duo collaborated on 2016’s The Edge of Seventeen. Fremon Craig told Deadline, “It’s rare for me to run into a woman or girl who hasn’t read it and every time I’ve mentioned it to a woman, they clutch their heart and let out this joyful gasp. There’s something so timely and full of truth and I remember for me that at that age, it felt like a life raft at a time when you’re lost and searching and unsure.” Blume enthusiastically endorsed Fremon Craig’s role in the film’s adaption, telling her in an email that if someone were to make a film out of one of her books, she “hoped it would have the same tone and feeling that The Edge of Seventeen had.”
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