![]() ![]() ![]() (For a PW story that speaks with both Blumes about the project, click here.) Not only did he pick the book, but he collaborated with Blume on the screenplay for Tiger Eyes and also took the director’s helm. She left it up to her son, Lawrence (who has confessed to being the model for Blume’s Fudge books) to decide which of her books would make the transition to screen. Despite Blume’s reluctance, it was something she had hoped to do eventually, as long as it was under the right circumstances. Blume has admitted that much of the reason is due to her desire to maintain creative control over her stories. ![]() and simultaneously on VOD, stars Willa Holland, Amy Jo Johnson, and Tatanka Means.įor an author as prolific as Blume and at a time when movie rights to YA novels are sometimes sold long before readers can even get their hands on the books, it’s a bit puzzling that it’s taken so long for a Blume movie adaptation to happen. The film, which releases on June 7 in a small number of theaters across the U.S. Tiger Eyes, originally published in 1981 by Bradbury Press, is the first of Blume’s books to be adapted into a feature-length movie. Longtime fans of Blume will soon get the chance to see if that resonance transfers to the big screen. In fact, Blume herself reports keeping a box of tissues handy when she does signings, just in case a reader should need one. There’s something about Judy Blume’s novels that resonate emotionally with readers. ![]()
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