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Will Sharpe No Longer Directing Crying in H Mart
The fate of Michelle Zauner’s memoir of the same name is uncertain.
In an interview with SSense, Michelle Zauner confirmed that the adaptation of her best-selling memoir of the same name is “on pause.” “There were issues with the Hollywood strikes, and the director stepped away from the project. The book traces Zauner’s upbringing in a mostly white Oregon school, the time she spent with her grandmother in Seoul, meeting her eventual husband, and her band Japanese Breakfast, which will provide the soundtrack for the film. “There were lots of things that resonated with me as somebody who is half-Japanese, half-British, spent my childhood in Tokyo,” Sharpe initially told People when he was originally announced as the director in 2023.
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