A new version of Nick Hornby’s romcom will focus on a female record-store owner chronicling her past relationships and will be shown on the studio’s streaming serviceDisney is reportedly planning a gender-flipped television adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity. The book was made into a movie by Stephen Frears in 2000, with John Cusack as a record-store owner. The series is expected to depart from the narrative of the book and film, but will maintain the romantic comedy and spirit of Hornby’s novel. Deadline reports that the female lead will talk straight to camera as she chronicles her past relationships, as Cusack did in the film adaptation. Frears’s movie transferred the novel’s setting from London to Chicago, and starred Cusack as lovelorn Rob Gordon, who attempts to figure out why his past relationships always went awry.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2018 09:56 UTC