Overview
- Focus Features confirmed late Tuesday that principal photography on Sarah Polley’s adaptation of The Bell Jar has wrapped and the film is now in post-production.
- Billie Eilish makes her feature acting debut as Esther Greenwood opposite Carey Mulligan, with Danielle Deadwyler, Connor Storrie, Ike Barinholtz, Dylan Hawco, Lili Taylor, Ella Beatty and Maggie Kuntz in supporting roles.
- Sarah Polley wrote and directed the screenplay in her first feature since winning the 2023 Oscar for Women Talking, and producers include Plan B, Studiocanal and Joy Coalition with Focus set to distribute.
- No public release date has been announced, leaving timing, marketing and festival plans to be confirmed in coming months.
- The source novel is Sylvia Plath’s only book and centers on a young woman’s descent into mental illness, a history that shapes expectations for sensitive treatment and public response to the adaptation.