The White Lotus Star Will Sharpe to Direct Japanese Breakfast’s New Crying in H Mart Film
Will Sharpe will direct the movie adaptation of Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner’s ebook Crying in H Mart, as Individuals notes. “It was a frightening job, to search out somebody I might belief with the retelling of such a private story,” Zauner mentioned of Sharpe in an announcement. “Somebody who might honor my mom’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and nonetheless make the approaching of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie city appear actual and funky.” Learn her full assertion beneath.
Zauner printed her “Crying in H Mart” essay in The New Yorker in August 2018. She rapidly signed a ebook deal and launched the full-length Crying in H Mart in April 2021. The ebook debuted at No. 2 on The New York Occasions’ best-seller listing and spent 60 weeks on the listing.
In 2021, just some days after Zauner launched her album Jubilee, it was introduced that MGM’s Orion Photos acquired the rights to the Crying in H Mart adaptation. Zauner instructed Consequence final yr that she had completed the primary draft of her screenplay.
Will Sharpe starred as Ethan Spiller within the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus. He wrote and directed the flicks The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain and The Darkest Universe, and he’s the creator and director of the Channel 4 sitcom Flowers.
Michelle Zauner:
It was a frightening job, to search out somebody I might belief with the retelling of such a private story. Somebody who might honor my mom’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and nonetheless make the approaching of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie city appear actual and funky.
In that spirit, I’m so relieved to have discovered Will Sharpe and am past delighted that he would be the director of Crying in H Mart. I consider his sensitivity, as a director and an actor, and his personal private expertise, having grown up between two cultures, can be super property.
His work on Flowers and The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain communicate to his skill to conjure lofty, weak performances, to search out humor and charm throughout the tragedy of the on a regular basis. They’re a treasured assortment of skills that make him the proper match for this movie.