Entertainment Weekly has announced that Lionsgate has cast Abby Ryder Fortson (Ant-Man and The Wasp) and Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange) in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, an adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel from Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen).
Fortson will play the title role of Margaret, a young girl who is coming of age and navigating life while McAdams will play her mother Barbara.
First published in 1970, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret follows “Margaret Simon, a sixth grader who is questioning everything about adolescence and puberty, and searching the universe for whatever answers she can find. With her mother and grandmother trying to guide her through a time when everything is changing, they too find that you never stop questioning your path and defining what is meaningful in your life.”
“Margaret and I are really similar,” Fortson said to EW. “I love her. She’s so goofy and awesome. She’s all heart and love and just wants to have friends and figure out who she is.”
“My readers are always fantasy-casting my books, but I’ve never done that,” said Blume. “But you know it when you see it, and Abby is a natural. And I’m so excited that Margaret got a funny, sexy, sassy mom in Rachel.”
Craig has written the script and will direct and produce alongside James L. Brooks, Julie Ansell, Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks and Blume.
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