Another Lisa Taddeo book is headed to the screen.
MGM and production company Plan B Entertainment are planning a film adaptation of Taddeo’s novel, Animal, which was published in June by Avid Reader Press, Deadline reports.
The novel follows a trauma-stricken woman who moves from New York to Los Angeles, where she searches for a woman she believes can help her understand a horrible event she witnessed as a child. A reviewer for Kirkus called the novel “a propulsive, erotic, emotional thriller” and “as full of sensuality, amorality, and drama as its riveting narrator.”
“We call women crazy when they are angry,” Taddeo told Deadline. “And we don’t have enough art that reflects how basal and vibrant and important female rage can be. I’m thrilled and grateful to bring Animal to life with two iconic film partners.”
Taddeo will write the screenplay for the adaptation. On her Instagram account, she wrote, “Cesar Cruz said that ‘art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.’ I wrote Animal for the former, because there are a lot of us out there who suffer in silence. The opportunity to carry that goal onto the screen is a fierce gift and I can’t wait to do my best.”
Animal is the second book from Taddeo to get a screen adaptation. Showtime is developing a series based on Taddeo’s nonfiction book, Three Women, with Shailene Woodley and DeWanda Wise set to star.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
