For fifty years Judy Blume has resisted offers to turn her coming of age book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret into a movie. The novel, which was published in 1970, follows a sixth-grader, Margaret who has grown up without any religious affiliation but begins to attend different churches and explore religions in an effort to understand her own faith.
Like many of Blume’s books, it’s a right of passage for girls, an honest portrayal from the mind of a teenage girl covering everything from puberty to teen crushes, and menstruation and even fifty years after it was first published, it’s still relevant and popular today.
Through the years Blume has turned down many offers to turn the book into a movie but back in August tweeted that she was considering changing her mind. Soon afterwards she was approached by Kelly Fremon Craig who brought the Edge of Seventeen to our screens and now the adaptation is a done deal.
We don’t have any other details about the upcoming project, who will star, or when it will be released but we’ll be watching closely for more details.

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