Singer Hayley Kiyoko to Direct Girls Like Girls Movie for Focus Features
Singer-songwriter Hayley Kiyoko (Lemonade Mouth) has partnered with Focus Features for the upcoming film adaptation of, based on her viral 2015 song and music video of the same name. The project will serve as Kiyoko’s feature directorial and screenwriting debut.
Girls Like Girls will be directed by Kiyoko from a screenplay she will co-write with Stefanie Scott. The latter is one of the leads of the Girls Like Girls music video, which currently has 157 million views on YouTube. The video also starred Yellowstone vet Kelsey Asbille and Hayden Thompson. The film will follow the “universal story of falling in love for the first time, and learning to accept yourself along the way.”
The film will be produced by Marc Platt, Katie McNicol, Adam Siegel, and Dee Best, Michael Philip, Jason Moring, and Richard Alan Reid, with Michelle Momplaiser set to oversee the project in behalf of Focus Features. Prior to adapting the song into a movie, Kiyoko had also published a Girls Like Girls novel in 2023. The coming-of-age novel reached the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and was also awarded a Goldie Award for Young Adult Fiction by the Golden Crown Literary Society.
The 2023 novel‘s official synopsis reads, “It’s summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate. Coley worries she isn’t worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she’s loved has left her. And Sonya’s never been with a girl before. What if she’s too afraid to show up for Coley? What if by opening her heart, Coley’s risking it all?
They both realize that when things are pushed down, and feelings are forced to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya will be the ones to shrink. It’s not until they accept the love they fear and deserve most, that suddenly the song makes sense.”
Source: Deadline
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