Deadline has shared the news that Normal People and Twisters star Daisy Edgar-Jones is approaching official casting in the film adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s 2022 book Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, as released by Paramount Pictures and directed by CODA director Siân Heder.
The adaptation’s screenplay has reportedly been a collaboration between Heder and Mark Bomback, who have screenwriting credits on 2013’s The Wolverine and the Divergent’s Insurgent installment from 2015.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’s official synopsis reads as charting “…the relationship between two friends who begin a successful video game company together.”
According to Deadline, it “….explores the intimacy, passion and heartbreak of creative collaboration, set against the visually groundbreaking worlds brought to life by the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s.”
The book is Zevin’s tenth piece of work and has sold over 4 million copies globally, earning a year long spot on the New York Times bestseller list, with the NYC Book Review citing it as “delightful and absorbing” and “expansive and entertaining” and also being ranked #76 by the outlet for its 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list.
Daisy Edgar-Jones broke to stardom for her performance as the shy Marianne Sheridan in the BBC/Hulu series Normal People in 2020, alongside the Oscar-nominated Paul Mescal, who also received his breakout for his work as Marianne’s on and off lover Connell Waldron. Normal People is based on the Sally Rooney book of the same name, which was published in 2018.
The star then went on to appear in the 2022 horror Fresh by Mimi Cave in her feature debut, as well as Olivia Newman’s 2022 drama mystery Where the Crawdads Sing, adapted from the 2018 book of the same title by Delia Owens, and 2024’s hit blockbuster sequel, Twisters.
Edgar-Jones is also set to appear in the 2026 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility by director Georgia Oakley as protagonist Elinor Dashwood.
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