This fall season features an array of mystery thrillers, featuring Happiest girl in the world be one of them. Based on the 2015 New York Times mystery novel of the same name, written by Jessica Knoll, Happiest girl in the world Mila Kunis will star as the lead character, Ani Fanelli. The film project was first announced by Variety in 2015, prior to the novel’s release, with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea producing through their Pacific Standard company.
Knoll would write the adapted screenplay and also executive produce the film, in an interview with cosmopolitan:
“Bruna and Reese also always supported me in writing the script and they thought the best way to do it would be with a co-writer. I thought That’s fine. I’ve never written a script. Then there was talk of another more established screenwriter doing it. And it didn’t work. In the eleventh hour, my agent said, “As a reminder, Jessica is really interested in writing the script.” Everyone realized it would be a real-time sucks to interview all these co-writers. So I’ve been working on the screenplay and I feel really good about it. I’m back on track.”
However, in February 2021, Variety also reported that Witherspoon and her company had dropped out of the project, signing Kunis and producing the film under her Orchard Farm Productions banner. The Happiest girl in the world will be directed by Mike Barker and released on Netflix.
Netflix has released the first trailer for Happiest girl in the world earlier this month. This will be Kunis’ first major production role since 2018 The spy who dumped me. Recently, her main film projects have been independent films. Of Happiest girl in the world will be released on Netflix, one of the biggest streaming services, and will definitely bring Kunis back to mainstream audiences.
The Happiest girl in the world The novel follows Ani FaNelli as a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, who went through a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe and beautiful blue-blooded fiancé, she is so close to living the perfect life she worked so hard for. But Ani has a secret. Something else is buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. It has been described as similar to gone girl and Girl on the train, both novels that have also become blockbusters because of the twists and turns and the readers who can’t put the book down. The premise of the film follows in the same way, and once Happiest girl in the world is released, we hope it will give viewers the ups and downs that the novel gave to readers.
Here’s everything we know about Happiest girl in the world.
Happiest girl in the world: The Storyline
Happiest girl in the world is about Ani FaNelli, a sharp-tongued New Yorker who seems to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a great wardrobe and a dream wedding in Nantucket on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that happened when she was a teenager at the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is forced to face a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
As with many mystery thrillers, the trailer for Happiest girl in the world gives viewers a taste of Ani and her seemingly perfect life while holding a dark secret from her past life that she’s trying to bury. We also see that there will be flashbacks of her in high school revealing the events leading up to the traumatic incident. Will Ani finally be able to let go of that trauma and accept that it’s a part of her life, or will it ruin everything she’s worked so hard for?
Happiest girl in the world: the cast
Happiest girl in the world stars Mila Kunis in the lead role of Ani FaNelli. Kunis is best known for her comedic roles in That 70’s show, forgetting Sarah Marshall, and ted, as well as the voice of Meg Griffin in Family man, a role Kunis has had since 1999. But Kunis has also proved to the public that she can play different roles. Her groundbreaking dramatic performance came in Black Swan, a role that earned her first Golden Globe nomination for Supporting Actress. Chiara Aurelia, best known for playing Jenette in cruel summer, plays the younger version of Ani.
The supporting cast of Happiest girl in the world also stars Finn Wittrock (American horror story, American crime story) as Luke, Ani’s fiancée and Scott McNairy (real detective) as Andrew Larson, Ani’s high school English teacher whom she meets again as an adult. The supporting cast additionally stars Connie Britton (American Horror Story, Nashville, The White Lotus) as Dina, Ani’s mother, and Jennifer Beales (the L-word) as Lolo Vincent.
Publication date
Happiest girl in the world will have a limited theatrical release on September 30, 2022, before releasing globally on Netflix on October 7, 2022.