Julia Hart (I'm Your Woman) will direct a film adaptation of Better Than the Movies, the bestselling YA novel by Lynn Painter, for Netflix, Deadline reported. Hart is also a co-writer on the project with her husband and creative partner Jordan Horowitz, who will produce for Original Headquarters alongside Shauna Phelan.
Better Than the Movies "is a love letter to romantic comedies, in which senior Liz Buxbaum relies on her obsession with rom-com movies to get the attention of her untouchable crush, with an assist from her annoying but cute next-door neighbor," Deadline wrote.