Oscar-winner Julia Roberts is heading to HBO, with the cable network snapping up the rights to a limited series adaptation of Maria Semple’s book Today Will Be Different. Roberts will star, as well as executive producing alongside Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle of Annapurna Pictures.
Today Will Be Different sees Roberts as Eleanor Flood, a woman who wakes up determined to be her best self — but then life happens. Taking place over a single day, it is described as a portrait of one woman’s fumbling but valiant attempt to navigate the perils and grace of modern life.
The series will mark a return to the small screen for Roberts, who starred in 2014’s HBO original film The Normal Heart. The actress will next be seen in the feature film Wonder alongside Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay, which opens in December, and has recently signed on to appear in adaptations of Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things and Cynthia Swanson’s The Bookseller.
Via THR
