{"id":9338,"date":"2026-03-11T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/billie-eilish-the-bell-jar-film\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:15:48","slug":"billie-eilish-the-bell-jar-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/billie-eilish-the-bell-jar-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Bound For \u2018Bell Jar\u2019 Film Adaptation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/09\/2175574342-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Billie Eilish on Sept. 29, 2024, in Quebec City, Quebec (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images for Live Nation).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Billie Eilish is in talks to make her feature film debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Path\u2019s beloved 1963 novel <em>The Bell Jar<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinsneider.com\/p\/billie-eilish-sarah-polley-bell-jar-movie-sylvia-plathy-plan-b-brad-pitt-live-nation-productions\" target=\"_blank\">according to industry newsletter <em>InSneider<\/em><\/a>. The screenplay is being written by onetime actress Sarah Polley, who won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the script to 2022\u2019s <em>Women Talking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Per the report, <em>The Bell Jar<\/em> will be produced by Brad Pitt\u2019s Plan B Entertainment and StudioCanal, with distribution from Focus Features. The book chronicles the declining mental health of a 1950s-era female college student working at a women\u2019s magazine and then returning to her New England hometown.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/kacey-musgraves-new-album\/\">Speak And \u2018Spell\u2019: Kacey Musgraves Is Back<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/violet-grohl-debut-album\/\">\u2018Sweet\u2019 Music: Violet Grohl Readies Debut Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/03\/turnstile-rainer-maria-american-football\/\">Turnstile, Rainer Maria Members Guest On American Football LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was previously made into a maligned 1979 film starring Marilyn Hassett and\u00a0Julie Harris, which was savaged by contemporary critics. The original novel was published one month before Plath committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Eilish previously acted in the 2023 Prime Video series <em>Swarm<\/em>, appeared as herself on <em>Sesame Street<\/em> and hosted <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> in 2021. That same year, she released both the concert film <em>A Love Letter to Los Angeles<\/em> and the documentary <em>The World\u2019s a Little Blurry<\/em>. Eilish has also won Academy Awards for her contributions to the <em>Barbie<\/em> and <em>No Time To Die<\/em> soundtracks. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/billie-eilish-concert-film-release-date\/\">As previously reported<\/a>, she stars and co-directs (with James Cameron) the concert film <em>HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D)<\/em>, which will be released May 8 by Paramount, Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish on Sept. 29, 2024, in Quebec City, Quebec (photo: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images for Live Nation). Billie Eilish is in talks to make her feature film debut&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2810,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billie-eilish","category-news","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}