Japanese Breakfast’s memoir ‘Crying in H Mart’ to obtain movie adaptation

Crying in H Mart, the memoir by musician and author Michelle Zauner (aka Japanese Breakfast) is ready to be tailored right into a function movie.

MGM’s Orion Photos have acquired rights for the movie adaptation of Zauner’s ebook, which was launched earlier this yr. Stacey Sher and Jason Kim will produce the movie, with Zauner composing its soundtrack, the Hollywood Reporter notes.

“It's a surreal thrill to have the chance to memorialize my mom in movie, and I take into account it of the best honor to pursue that process alongside inventive luminaries corresponding to Stacey Sher, Jason Kim and Orion Photos,” Zauner commented in a press release.

Zauner’s memoir developed from an essay she wrote for the New Yorker in August 2018, additionally titled Crying in H Mart. The essay noticed Zauner mirror on rising up Korean-American, reconciling her identification following her mom’s most cancers analysis, and experiencing grief following the lack of her mom. Zauner’s ebook arrived in April of this yr, debuting at quantity two on the New York Instances nonfiction best-seller listing.

Final week, Zauner launched her third album underneath her Japanese Breakfast moniker, ‘Jubilee’. The follow-up to 2017’s ‘Gentle Sounds from One other Planet’ was previewed with singles like ‘Posing in Bondage’ and ‘Savage Good Boy’, the latter arriving with a music video starring The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli.

In a four-star assessment, NME‘s Will Richards praised the album’s ambition, calling it “a private and musical breakthrough from a singer destined for a lot, far larger issues.”