Since her first book was published in 1969, Judy Blume has been guiding generations through every stage of life with her earnest novels that tackle everything from sibling rivalry and first periods to the complex nature of adult friendships. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. “Because here I am, working with a director I trust, someone I know understands those characters.As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. “I know I have reputation for not selling my books (to Hollywood). She describes going on what she calls “Judy Sweetheart” lunches (where execs ask her, ‘Judy, sweetheart, what do you want to do?”) and being less than enthralled with the Fudge series.

It’s a big hole.”īlume said she hasn’t been star-struck by Hollywood despite being continually approached. It’s always there, it’s a big part of your life. “When I was very young, my dad died suddenly. I can’t even talk about it without choking up,” Blume told The Hollywood Reporter. “I will swear to you, when I wrote this book, I didn’t know it would have anything to do with my father’s death. But it later occurred to her that the novel was her subconscious way of dealing with her memory of her father, who also died suddenly.

Together they help overcome her fear and grief.īlume revealed that when she first wrote the story, it was primarily about a family relocating to a new town - as she did when she moved with her teenage children to Los Alamos, N.M. She meets an American Indian teen named Wolf, whose father is a terminally ill patient in the hospital at which the girl volunteers. Written in 1981, “Tiger Eyes” tells of a teenage girl whose family is forced to move in with relatives in New Mexico after her father is killed in a convenience story robbery. The production, budgeted at less than $5 million, will look for a U.S. U.K.-based retail giant Tesco is financing the film as part of a multipicture deal based on adaptations of best-selling novels. “Forever” was turned into TV movie in 1978. “Tiger Eyes” marks her first novel to be translated to a feature film, although there have been several TV incarnations, notably a Fudge series and two ABC Weekend specials (one adapting “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great”) in the 1990s. Blume wrote the screenplay with her son Lawrence Blume, who also is directing. LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Judy Blume young-adult novel “Tiger Eyes” is heading to the big screen, and the author has a hand in the adaptation.

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