Netflix in Talks to Make IDOL with Hailee Steinfeld

Netflix and Matt Reeves' company 6th & Idaho are in talks to produce the music-themed film Idol, on which Hailee Steinfeld is attached to star and produce. The deal has not closed yet, but it is surely imminent, says Deadline.

The Matt King-penned story is described as Devil Wears Prada meets All About Eve set in the high-stakes world of pop music. The story revolves around a girl who becomes an assistant for an iconic-type singer and then tries to become her, as in morph into her.

Federal Films, Steinfeld's label, will release the original soundtrack. Steinfeld, an Academy Award nominee for True Grit, is expected to be very involved with the music in the film.

6th and Idaho Prods' Reeves, Adam Kassan and Rafi Crohn will produce. Steinfeld and her mother Cheri Steinfeld will be producing alongside Federal.

Steinfeld starred in the last two Pitch Perfect movies, which made close to $500 million worldwide. Steinfeld stars in the upcoming Bumble, out on December 21, and provides THE VOICE of Gwen Stacy in Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse opening December 14.

As a musician, Steinfeld's double-platinum single hits are her 2015 debut single "Love Myself", "Starving" with Grey (feat. Zedd), the summer anthem "Most Girls," and the platinum-certified single, "Let Me Go."

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