The function 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, primarily based on her 2021 memoir, which itself was an growth of an essay revealed 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 together with her id following the lack of her mom.
Now, although, Zauner has confirmed that progress is now not being made on the movie. Talking to SSENSE, she stated: “Nicely, 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 tricky however rewarding course of. I nonetheless have religion it can get made sometime, nevertheless it’s not taking place anytime quickly. Proper now, I’m specializing in different inventive tasks, so the movie should 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 quite a lot of festivals and being again on the highway, 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 by way of Useless Oceans (pre-order/pre-save right here), and earlier this month Zauner shared the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’ (hear above).
Produced by Grammy-Award winner Blake Mills (Sky Ferreira, Fiona Apple), the file sees the group dive right into a deeper, moodier sound, creating what a press launch calls “a creative assertion of function: 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 is able to 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.
Try a full checklist of tour dates right here. Go to right here to buy US tickets and right here for UK and European tickets.