Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang opened in the UK earlier this year and this coming Friday it’s being released in the US, now with the slight change in title: Nanny McPhee Returns.
During press interviews for the film, Maggie Gyllenhaal updated the status of two upcoming film projects: Hysteria, and an untitled Bill Monroe biopic.
The first, Hysteria, is a rom-com centered on the invention of the vibrator. Hysteria is set to be directed by Tanya Wexler from a script by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer. The second film, an untitled biopic of music legend Bill Monroe, will see her acting alongside her husband Peter Sarsgaard. Finn Taylor is currently attached to direct.
Here’s what Maggie Gyllenhaal had to say of her involvement in Hysteria:
In Hysteria I play a firecracker whose father is a doctor who is in the business of curing hysterical women. He cures them basically by getting them off and that actually happened. I end up having a sort of unexpected love affair with this guy who works for him, and who by mistake invents the vibrator [laughs].
And, here’s what Maggie Gyllenhaal said of the Bill Monroe biopic:
Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life and T-Bone Burnett’s going to do the music and Callie Khouri who wrote Thelma & Louise wrote the script so we’re going to do that together.
Hysteria will be her next project after Nanny McPhee Returns and sounds like a potentially unique, intriguing idea for a rom-com. The Bill Monroe biopic will follow and, with the names currently attached, sounds perfect Award season fodder.
ScreenCrave reported this one first.
