EXCLUSIVE: Strange Darling actress Willa Fitzgerald is joining Paramount Pictures feature adaptation of the Colleen Hoover 2019 novel Regretting You.
The Fault in Our Stars‘ Josh Boone is helming and wrote the latest draft off Susan McMartin’s version (After). This movie will be hitting theaters on Oct. 24.
In Regretting You, a shocking car wreck takes the lives of two family members, unlocking a series of secrets, lies and regrets. The people left behind can’t move forward without looking at the past. The movie explores what’s left behind after a tragedy, the messiness and grief, but also the beauty of life and love.
Fitzgerald joins a booming cast that includes Allison Williams (Get Out, M3GAN), Dave Franco (Now You See Me, The Disaster Artist), Mckenna Grace (PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), and Mason Thames (Black Phone).
Robert Kulzer is producing for Constantin Film alongside Brunson Green (The Help, Harbinger Pictures), Anna Todd (Frayed Pages Media), and Flavia Viotti. Hoover, Williams, Franco, and Grace are EPs.
Fitzgerald starred in Miramax’s Strange Darling, for writer/director J.T. Mollner and producer Roy Lee. She also received a 2024 Critics Choice nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for her work in Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher for showrunner Mike Flanagan. She will be seen leading the cast of the upcoming Netflix series Pulse for showrunner Carlton Cuse, which will premiere on April 3.
Other feature credits include Relay, with Riz Ahmed, which premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and stars in Alarum, alongside Sylvester Stallone and Scott Eastwood, directed by Michael Polish. She also starred in Lionsgate’s Desperation Road, where she shared the screen with Garrett Hedlund and in Warner Bros’ The Goldfinch. Her body of indie films include Salvage Salvation with Jack Huston, Blood Money with John Cusack, the thriller Beach House opposite Murray Bartlett, Joe Baby with Dichen Lachman, and Freak Show, directed by Trudie Styler.
Fitzgerald also starred in Amazon Prime’s Reacher alongside Alan Ritchson and Malcolm Goodwin. She also starred as ‘Coach Collette French’ in the USA series Dare Me, based on the best-selling Megan Abbott novel of the same name and portrayed ‘Meg March’ in the BBC America adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
The actress is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
