Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore has been tapped to helm the upcoming Legally Blonde prequel collection Elle. Moore will direct the primary two episodes of the present from Amazon MGM Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.
Created by Laura Kittrell (High School, Insecure) and Caroline Dries (Batwoman, Vampire Diaries), Elle follows Elle Woods, performed by Lexi Minetree, in highschool as we study in regards to the life experiences that formed her into the long-lasting younger girl we got here to know and love within the first Legally Blonde movie.
Kittrell and Dries will each function co-showrunners and govt producers. Reese Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter, and Marc Platt will even function govt producers. Elle is produced by Hello Sunshine and Amazon MGM Studios.
Moore’s characteristic directorial debut, Pitch Perfect starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow, was a important and industrial success; he served as govt producer on each of the sequels. He additionally directed 2015’s Universal film Sisters, starring Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Maya Rudolph. Most lately, Moore directed Shotgun Wedding, starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel, for Prime Video. Upcoming, he’ll direct two e book diversifications: The Guncle, primarily based on the bestseller by Steven Rowley, and Emma Straub’s novel This Time Tomorrow. He’s repped by WME and LBI Entertainment.