Screenwriter Guinevere Turner’s debut memoir, a coming-of-age story, sold at auction to Crown’s Gillian Blake. Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency represented the author (whose credits include the screenplay for American Psycho and various episodes of The L Word), selling North American rights.
The film will tell the story of a young woman who is jarred into remembering a tragedy long buried in her subconscious. Through therapy, a blossoming romance and the appearance of a mysterious woman, past and present collide as she’s forced to confront the murder-suicide that changed her life as a child.
Producer Dana Guerin, director Mary Harron, and screenwriter Guinevere Turner—who was raised in a cult herself—on their upcoming “Manson Girls”-focused film, Charlie Says.
Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner on Manson Murders Movie ‘Charlie Says,’ Starring Matt Smith
Charlie Says tells the story from the perspective of three of the Manson Family — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — rather than Manson himself
Charlie Says is a new entry into the overly examined world of the Manson family, told through the eyes of Hannah Murray's Leslie Van Houten.
“I’m just empathetic,” Turner explained over a recent lunch in West Hollywood. “Just to even look at Grace Van Dien, who plays Sharon in the movie — she’s standing there in the corner with her pregnant prosthetic, sobbing to get ready for the scene where she’s begging for her life — I was crying.”
Actress, model and singer Bella Thorne (Midnight Sun) has been set to star in thriller Saint Clare, co-scripted by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).