10 Issues I Hate About You, the beloved ’90s rom-com, is being tailored right into a Broadway musical. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen and Women creator and author Lena Dunham are hooked up to write down the present’s rating and e-book, respectively, after long-circulating rumors.
Jepsen will co-write the rating with Ethan Gruska, whom she’s labored with on her final challenge The Loveliest Time. Dunham will co-write the e-book with Jessica Huang (The Paper Dream of Harry Chin), experiences Billboard. Mike Bosner is about to supply the present, having just lately helmed the 2022 starchy musical Shucked! and 2014’s jukebox biographical present Lovely — The Carole King Musical.
“I can inform you 10 issues I’m enthusiastic about proper now or simply skip to primary which is engaged on this dream challenge with this dream crew!” Jepsen wrote on her Instagram.
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Tom Kitt, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Subsequent to Regular, will organize and orchestrate the present. Former New York Metropolis Ballet resident artist Christopher Wheeldon will direct and choreograph, boasting Broadway credit in An American in Paris and MJ: The Musical, each of which gained Tonys for Finest Choreography. With unique music by Jepsen and Gruska, it’s too quickly to say if the screen-to-stage adaptation will clear rights to make use of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” however right here’s to hoping.
10 Issues I Hate About You was launched in 1999 as a contemporary tackle the Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, it was a direct success and catapulted the careers of the movie’s three stars. Later, in 2009, 10 Issues was tailored right into a TV sequence for ABC Household however was canceled after one season.
Jepsen’s final album was 2023’s The Loveliest Time, her B-side assortment to 2022’s The Loneliest Time. She’s additionally teased that her subsequent document is on the way in which quickly in a sequence of Instagram posts. Rumor has it that A.G. Prepare dinner, Danny L Harle, Casey MQ, Kyle Shearer, and plenty of extra are concerned, although nothing is fully confirmed as of April 2025.
Dunham’s new present, Too A lot, is predicted to premiere on Netflix later this yr. It stars Hacks’ Megan Stalter and The White Lotus’ Will Sharpe. Shortly after the success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Dunham was set to direct a Polly Pocket movie, however dropped out in 2024. “I don’t assume I’ve that in me. I really feel like the following film I make must really feel like a film that I completely must make… And I did assume different folks might make Polly Pocket,” she instructed The New Yorker.
Revisit Consequence’s 2022 interview with Carly Rae Jepsen, the place she mentioned the inspirations and behind-the-scenes of The Loneliest Time.