Variety is reporting that Sigourney Weaver (The Defenders) and Margaret Qualley (Donnybrook) are set to star in My Salinger Year, a feature film adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s bestselling book, which is being written and directed by Philippe Falardeau (The Good Lie, Chuck).
The film will take place in New York in the 1990s, with Qualley portraying Joanna, a graduate with a dream of becoming a writer, who is hired as an assistant to Margaret (Weaver), the old-fashioned literary agent of The Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger. Joanna fluctuates between the poverty of her Brooklyn apartment and the glamour of her plush office, and as she reads Salinger’s fan mail, she begins personalizing the responses, discovering her own voice in the process.
“After directing seven features starring mostly male protagonists, I was longing to shift the paradigm and tell a story from a female perspective,” said Falardeau. “I now get to do that with the help of two very talented actresses who should prove to make an exciting duo in this mentor-mentee story.”
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“This is a total crowd-pleaser that will draw a substantial audience,” added Tanja Meissner, head of international sales at Memento Films International (Call Me By Your Name). “All the relevant ingredients are assembled: an irresistibly charming and tender story in which ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets the literary world.”
Filming on My Salinger Year will get underway in the spring, shooting in Montreal and New York.
