THR is reporting that Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in French Children Don’t Throw Food, an adaptation of Pamela Druckerman’s autobiography of the same name.
Described a similar in tone as Julie & Julia, French Children Don’t Throw Food will see Hathaway playing “an American journalist who moves to Paris for her husband’s job and raises a family there. As she tries to figure out how to balance her family and career — and battle the feelings that she is failing at both — she observes her French neighbors and friends to uncover the secrets behind parenting astonishingly well-behaved French children. She learns, however, that everyone, no matter how perfect they might appear, has their own problems.”
StudioCanal is financing the film, which is being produced by Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin’s Blueprint Picture, the company behind Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Emma.
Hathaway can currently be seen in director Dee Rees’ Netflix film The Last Thing He Wanted alongside Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe and Rosie Perez, , and is set to portray the Grand Witch in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
