Elise Duran To Direct And Alexandra Daddario To Star In Sophie Kinsella's CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?

Elise Duran will direct comedy "Can You Keep a Secret?" based on the blockbuster bestselling novel by Sophie Kinsella. Alexandra Daddario will star in the lead role of Emma. Peter Hutchings adapted. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures are producers. Daddario and Charles Miller are executive producers.
Embankment Films is selling international territories.

"Can You Keep a Secret?" tells the story of Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets. On a turbulent plane ride, thinking she's about to die, she spills them all to the handsome stranger sitting next to her. At least, she thought he was a stranger...But then Jack Harper, her company's young and elusive CEO, arrives at the office. It's him. And he knows every single humiliating detail about her...

The book was a New York Times Bestseller and an immense success. It has sold over four million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. Previously set up at Paramount, the novel was then developed by BCDF with a new screenplay by Hutchings. BCDF has also enlisted the new start-up, Fiction Riot, as a partner to develop mobile content for the film early next year.

Kinsella, whose novels have sold 40 million copies worldwide, is best known for her
"Shopaholic" series, including "Confessions of a Shopaholic," which Disney adapted for wide release in 2009 and features Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who can't stop shopping.

Alexandra Daddario garnered critical attention with her breakout role in the first season of Emmy-nominated HBO series, "True Detective," alongside Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Her film credits include the Warner Bros/New Line summer blockbuster "San Andreas," Paramount's "Baywatch," and Fox's "Percy Jackson" young-adult film franchise. Next up, Daddario will star in "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" and "Nomis," opposite Henry Cavill and Ben Kingsley. She is a brand ambassador of the Swiss watch company, Movado.

BCDF is best known for the female comedy hit "Bachelorette" and the comedy-drama "Liberal Arts." Recently they have been developing an array of large book properties for film and television, including the YA franchise "Hush, Hush," which has sold over five million copies, and "The Language of Flowers," which spent 69 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Duran comes from the documentary world and has directed and/or produced well known projects including "Being Chaz" and "Finding Sarah" for the OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK and "Small Town Ecstasy" for HBO.

"I'm absolutely thrilled that "Can You Keep a Secret?" is going to become a movie and I know my readers around the world will look forward to it just as much as I do," said Kinsella. "I am very excited that Alexandra Daddario is to play Emma and I can't wait to see the story come alive on screen."

Daddario is repped by UTA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. Kinsella is repped by Valerie Hoskins Associates and Lucas Alexander Whitley. BCDF is repped by Sheri Jeffrey at Hogan Lovells.

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