Emma Thompson and Chris O'Dowd to Star in HOW TO BUILD A GIRL

Emma Thompson and Chris O'Dowd will star in the film adaptation of Caitlin Moran's best-selling book How to Build a Girl, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film's previous announced cast include Beanie Feldstein in the lead and Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, and Sarah Solemani.

How to Build a Girl, set in 1993, stars Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan, a smart, opinionated and overweight 16-year-old. Hormones raging, she is desperate to get out of her hometown and make a name for herself -- which she does, reinventing herself as Dolly Wilde, a rock music critic. Gaining notoriety as an enfant terrible, she finally figures out "how to build a girl." But is this the girl she wanted to build?

U.K. producer Monumental Pictures optioned Moran's semi-autobiographical 2014 book and developed the project with Film4. Moran wrote the screenplay and the film will be directed by Coky Giedroyc.

Thompson will play Johanna's editor at a music magazine and Considine and Solemani will play Johanna's "unconventional parents."

Alison Owen of Monumental Pictures said, "We had fantasized about Emma Thompson playing the editor since we first spoke with Caitlin about this project -- I think Caitlin might have cut the scene if Emma hadn't agreed! Thank goodness we struck lucky. We feel blessed."

Read the original article on The Hollywood Reporter.