Emma Watson is teaming up again with director Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower) to star in While We’re Young. The film is an adaptation of Adena Halpern’s novel 29 which tells the story of a 75 year old grandmother who gets her birthday wish to be 29 again for a day and has an adventure with her granddaughter. No other cast members or a date for filming have been announced. (This is not the Noah Baumbach movie of the same name which is currently filming.)
In the novel, Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything she can to stay young, and the last thing she wants is to celebrate another birthday. So when she finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, Ellie wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true?
29 is the story of three generations of women and how one magical day shakes up everything they know about each other. While Ellie finds that the life of a twenty-something is not as carefree as she expected, the sheer joy of being young again prompts her to consider living her life all over. Does she dare stay young for more than this day, even if it means leaving everyone she loves behind?
Fresh, funny, and delightful, 29 is an enchanting adventure about families, love, and the real lessons of youth. – Amazon.com
Go for it, Beautiful!!!!
Epic! Also holy hell, u got the same name as me! ( no really its my name!)
Relax, mate, we’ve all got our problems!
nice story line,hope this movie release soon.
OMG go for it!!!! I would want to see a GOOD movie that goes back in time like that…Emma would be perfect!!
Read the book and I can’t wait to see what Stephen does with it. I’m sure Emma will be great. The only problem is that Amanda Seyfried is currently filming a film with the same title according to IMDb “While We are Young” and it has a totally different premise. They at IMDb have Emma listed as currently filming on that film mistakenly, so I think Stephen will have to change the title of his film.
Read the book and I can’t wait to see what Stephen does with it. I’m sure Emma will be great. The only problem is that Amanda Seyfried is currently filming a film with the same title according to IMDb “While We’re Young” and it has a totally different premise. They at IMDb have Emma listed as currently filming on that film mistakenly, so I think Stephen will have to change the title of his film.
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There will be no love scenes; and if there are some, she will use a body-double. It’s all about image, you know…. 😉
Great, another film with Emma. I was wondering what her next project would be. This story sounds awesome. I can’t wait to see it 🙂
this is, like the third role Emma has signed on for and didn’t go through with it; I love Emma to death, and I will always be a fan, but I’m really getting annoyed with this. I’ve been waiting to see Emma in something that will REALLY blow us away. She’s an incredible actress, and while I loved the Harry Potter series, I think she could stretch her wings a lot more. Also, this kind of story has been done, and overdone. I kind of hope she doesn’t do it.
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What’s interesting is that Emma is 23 (soon to be 24), making her a few years younger than 29. Though this won’t be the first time Emma’s played someone older than her.
It’s also strange how there’s yet another movie of the same name. In the worst
case scenario they could just call it 29 much like the novel if it has to be changed.
Anyway I hope we get more information in the future.