The star of “Melancholia” Kirsten dunst more than once in various interviews talked about the fact that he wants to be on the other side of the camera to direct your own movie. In the near future, the actress will have such an opportunity. Dunst takes on the adaptation of the novel of Sylvia Plath “the bell jar.

The author of the script itself was Kirsten really helped her in this case Nellie Kim.

As noted by the Western press, the bell jar is the only novel Sylvia, which was written shortly before her suicide. There is a story about a young woman named Esther Greenwood who is an Intern at a prestigious magazine in new York and suffers from mental disorders.

The events described in the novel, with a high degree of accuracy correspond to what happened with Sylvia Plath in 1953, when she became a laureate of the literary contest conducted by the magazine Mademoiselle and a group of girls, the winners, received an invitation for an internship in the new York office of publications as a freelance editor.

The main role in the film entrusted dunst, Dakota fanning.

Shooting will begin in the first quarter of 2017.