Cruising into filmmaking

Katie Holmes is all set to direct and star in the film adaptation of ‘All We Had’

Katie Holmes optioned the rights to Annie Weatherwax’s novel earlier this year in July and will be stepping behind the camera for the very first time. She will be directing and starring in the film adaptation of the artist and writers ‘All We Had’.

She will also be playing the role of a poor mother, who, along with her daughter, is living on the edge of poverty and yet manages to find a home in a small town in America after their landlord evicts them.

Jane Rosenthal, a co-founder of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival will be taking up the role of producer for the film alongside Holmes and Berry Welsh, the vice president of production and development at Tribeca Productions.

Josh Boone, the director behind the critically and commercially successful, The Fault in Our Stars would be penning the script for the film.

According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, Holmes is excited to be collaborating with Jane Rosenthal and Josh Boone for her upcoming project, stating, “I am very excited and honoured to be collaborating with Jane and Josh on this project and look so forward to bringing Annie’s incredible characters to the screen.”

“Katie has such a clear vision for the book’s irreverent, original mother-daughter relationship,” Rosenthal said in a statement.

Holmes who shot to fame during the 1990s as the star of the television series Dawson’s Creek recently starred in the films Miss Meadows and Days and Nights.

She is also the ex-wife of Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, with their was marriage  lasting six years between 2006 and 2012.

Tom Cruise gained worldwide fame as the star of hit movies such as Top Gun, Jerry Maguire and the Mission Impossible franchise later transitioned into film production, apart from working as an actor. He started his own company alongside casting agent, Paula Wagner known as the Cruise/ Wagner Productions. To date the production company has grossed over $2.9 billion in box office proceeds since its inception in 1993.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2014.

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