Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Crying In H Mart’ movie adaptation is put “on pause”
The characteristic movie adaptation of Japanese Breakfast’s memoir Crying In H Mart has been put “on pause” for the foreseeable future.
The singer – actual title Michelle Zauner – had written the screenplay for the film herself, based mostly on her 2021 memoir, which itself was an enlargement of an essay printed within the New Yorker.
The movie was set to be directed by The White Lotus star Will Sharpe and was going to element Zauner’s expertise rising up as a Korean-American and reckoning along with her identification following the lack of her mom.
Now, although, Zauner has confirmed that progress is not being made on the movie. Chatting with SSENSE, she mentioned: “Effectively, it’s on pause. There have been points with the Hollywood strikes, and the director stepped away from the venture.”
“I spent a yr engaged on the screenplay, which was a troublesome however rewarding course of. I nonetheless have religion it would get made sometime, but it surely’s not occurring anytime quickly. Proper now, I’m specializing in different inventive initiatives, so the movie must wait.”
Zauner introduced a casting name for the position of herself in Could 2023, a yr after saying: “Hopefully that can come out someday within the subsequent couple years. I’m simply enjoying loads of festivals and being again on the street, and Crying In H Mart the film [will arrive] perhaps someday within the subsequent few years.”
Japanese Breakfast will launch fourth studio album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Ladies)’ on March 21 through Useless Oceans (pre-order/pre-save here), and earlier this month Zauner shared the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’ (pay attention above).
Produced by Grammy-Award winner Blake Mills (Sky Ferreira, Fiona Apple), the document sees the group dive right into a deeper, moodier sound, creating what a press launch calls “an inventive assertion of objective: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel”.
Japanese Breakfast have additionally introduced their 2025 US, UK and European tour, which can kick off at Coachella, adopted by stops in Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Boston, Brooklyn and extra earlier than heading over to Europe and the UK. The tour will shut out with a return to the US and wrap up at The Armory in Minneapolis on September 9.
Take a look at a full checklist of tour dates right here. Visit here to purchase US tickets and here for UK and European tickets.