Belle Burden’s ‘Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage’ Lands at Netflix with Gwyneth Paltrow to Star
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The streamer wins the hot bidding war for the very New York-centric adaptation package, which also has Broadway playwright Heidi Schreck on board to pen the screenplay.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment In one of the buzziest books of the year, Netflix has won a massive bidding war to nab the screen rights to Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden. But it’s not just the book deal, said to be in the seven figures, according to sources, that caused a stir. It’s the talent attached to it. Gwyneth Paltrow , enjoying a career resurgence thanks to her work in the multi-Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme , is on board to star and executive produce the adaptation. Heidi Schreck, the playwright who wrote the Tony Award-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me , is on board to pen the script. Related Stories TV How a Local Outcast Found His Nudist Haven in 'Neighbors' -- And What Happened Next Movies Timothée Chalamet's 'Marty Supreme' Sets Streaming Debut Stacey Sher will produce. Sher is a veteran producer who earned best picture Oscar nominations for 2000’s Erin Brockovich and 2012’s Django Unchained , the latter part of a trio of Quentin Tarantino films she was involved with. She is also producing the upcoming Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity as well as the David Fincher/Tarantino collaboration The Adventures of Cliff Booth. Burden was a Harvard-educated lawyer who came from a life of privilege. Vanderbilts and Paleys were in her blood. Her grandmother was a Truman Capote swan. And she married into wealth, giving up her working career to raise three children and be a devoted wife in a life that included a home in Martha’s Vinyard and private clubs. Then, after the first week of lockdown during the pandemic, her loving husband of 20 years came to her and said he was leaving her. He didn’t even have an interest in custody of the children. She was abruptly and inexplicably shut out. Burden did not, however, decide to remain uns...
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