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Greta Lee Sets Directorial Debut With ‘The Eyes Are the Best Part’ Adaptation for Searchlight


Greta Lee will direct and write a feature adaptation of the feminist horror novel 'The Eyes Are the Best Part.'

In her feature filmmaking debut, she will direct and write an adaptation of “ The Eyes Are the Best Part,” author Monika Kim’s psychological horror novel about the making of a female serial killer, for Searchlight Pictures. Described as a “ terrifying tale of misogyny, Asian fetishization and cannibalism,” the story follows a struggling college freshman named Ji-won who develops an obsession with eating human eyes. The New York Times book review praised “The Eyes Are the Best Part” as a “delightfully gory tale” that is “emotional as it is brutal.” Casting has not been announced.

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