Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum is bringing another woman-penned novel to the screen. The director will follow up 2022 Sofia Carson-starrer “Purple Hearts,” based on the book by Tess Wakefield, with “Mary Jane,” an adaptation of Jessica Anya Blau’s bestselling coming-of-age novel, for Sony and 3000 Pictures. Blau is penning the script. Deadline broke the news about the project.
Published in 2021, “Mary Jane” centers on “an innocent teenager from a very conservative 1970s Baltimore family” who gets a summer job babysitting, “only to find out that her employer is a progressive psychologist who’s secretly treating a rock star and his superstar wife for rehab at his home. As Mary Jane is
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