Netflix has picked up the film rights to Shelby Van Pelt’s best-selling novel “Remarkably Bright Creatures” with veteran actress Sally Field in talks to star. The story deals with the unique relationship between a lonely woman working as a janitor at an aquarium and a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus living at the facility. She is grieving the recent death of her husband and has never gotten over the disappearance of her son at sea thirty years earlier.
Meanwhile the octopus is both cranky and smarter than the humans around him think. Turns out he may be the only one who can help the woman. It was the top-selling book of 2023, selling over two million copies and gone through at least thirty printings.
Van Pelt was a financial consultant before turning to being an author. Olivia Newman (“Where the Crawdads Sing,” “The Last Thing He Told Me”) directs and co-writes with John Whittington (“Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” “The Lego Batman Movie”). David Levine, Bryan Unkeless and Peter Craig produce.
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