It looks like Madonna is set to get back behind the camera, with the music superstar revealing to Harper’s Bazaar that she is set to write and direct an adaptation Andrew Sean Greer’s novel The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, which will be titled Loved.
“It touches on a lot of really important topics I’ve always been invested in or championed – fighting for women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights, always fighting for the underdog,” said Madonna. “Why does this book appeal to me? Why did I want to adapt it into a screenplay? Because it touches me on so many levels and it deals with so many important topics. Right now, more than ever, it’s an extremely timely story to tell.”
Here’s the synopsis for The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, via Amazon:
After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and the Greta of 1985 finds herself transported to remarkably similar lives in different eras as a bohemian and adulteress in 1918, and a devoted wife and mother in 1941 fraught with familiar tensions and difficult choices.
Traveling through time, the modern Greta learns that each reality has its own losses and rewards, and that her alternate selves are unpredictable, driven by their own desires and needs. And as the final treatment looms, one of these other selves could change everything. Magically atmospheric, achingly romantic, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells beautifully imagines “what if” and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be.
Originally published January 19, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
