![]() ![]() It’s so vividly cinematic, with entertaining and complex characters and, like Gloria herself, also witty and provocative. Taymor added, “When I read the book, it demanded that it be a film. “So now that we are on this journey together, I hope and believe the result will encourage many more travelers - especially women in all our diverse realities - to tell our own stories.” ![]() ![]() “I can’t imagine anyone more magical than Julie Taymor - or more understanding than Lynn Hendee and Sarah Ruhl,” said Steinem. Steinem and Amy Richards (“WOMAN with Gloria Steinem”) are serving as executive producers. In addition to directing, Taymor is also producing alongside Lynn Hendee (“Ender’s Game”) and June Pictures’ Andrew Duncan and Alex Saks. This project marks her debut as a screenwriter. Taymor is perhaps best known for directing Broadway sensation “The Lion King.” Her screen credits include “Frida” and “Across the Universe.” “In the Next Room” and “The New World” are among Ruhl’s stage credits. The film, hailing from June Pictures, will chronicle “Steinem’s growth into a galvanizing symbol for equality, with a focus on the surprising encounters along the road that helped shaped her,” the source writes. Deadline broke the news that the former will direct the feminist activist’s coming-of-age story and the latter will pen the screenplay. And Julie Taymor and Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl are taking it there. In what sounds like fan fiction dreamed up by feminist film lovers, word has come that Gloria Steinem’s memoir, “My Life on the Road,” is being adapted for the big screen. ![]()
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