Miranda July and STARZ Go Public With Their Relationship
The All Fours author says the network “really digs into the reality of who women are and what we want.”
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Television networks don’t, as far as we know, have a gender, but according to Miranda July, STARZ is for the girls. The network is taking on a series adaptation of her latest novel, All Fours. “Rather than shying away from all the messy contradictions within sexuality and desire, STARZ really digs into the reality of who women are and what we want, which makes it the perfect place to bring my novel to life,” the author and filmmaker said in a press release February 13. And hey, if All Fours is anything, it’s rich with the messy contradictions within sexuality and desire, so this could be a match made in heaven. Kathryn Busby, the president of original programming at STARZ, echoed these thoughts and STARZ’s commitment to “boundary-pushing programming for adults” — a.k.a. novels where women of all ages and sexualities go somewhat insane due to too much or not enough sex.
All Fours went big this summer, blowing up the social conventions of just about every book club and/or mother-daughter conversation over the past six months. The novel, a National Book Award finalist, tells the story of a perimenopausal artist whose affair with a younger man explodes her life and her marriage and her understanding of her own sexuality. All of which is to say: Start fan-casting now. While July herself feels like the obvious choice for the lead of the show, that doesn’t rule out that this sort of thing is exactly Kathryn Hahn’s bag. And what about Davey, the young hunkish dancer the narrator falls for? Are there any Gen-Z actors who can dance? Why is Mike Faist the only person who comes to mind? Surely, the executives at STARZ, the network for women, and July herself are hard at work coming up with answers to these questions.
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