Scarlett Johansson is attached to play Alice.Īlice is wealthy, guileless, petite - but hates the word “petite”! - and does not like to read. At the tail end of 2016, Imperative Entertainment acquired the film rights to Mangan’s thriller.
In alternating chapters conveyed by the female leads, there unfolds the story of how Lucy ruins Alice’s life because she’s jealous of her, and in love with her, and she has no impulse control to speak of - but she is also a masterful logistician, in the vein of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. There they’d been roommates, very close, bound by a common, tragic biographical detail (they are both orphans, or profess to be) and an enigmatic, indescribable attraction. To backtrack: Lucy Mason arrives on the doorstep of Alice Shipley and her husband, John McAllister, in Tangier in 1956 - as Morocco is in the throes of liberating itself from French colonial rule - a year after the two women have left Bennington College. Despite being portrayed as a mostly manipulative street ruffian with zero interiority throughout, he kindly dispenses this smarting bit of wisdom to a British woman whose dogmatic gullibility has landed him in prison, possibly for the duration of his life, framed for a crime he did not commit. You are still the same person.” This is some of the very best advice Christine Mangan’s debut novel, Tangerine, has to offer and might have been its brightest scene if the book hadn’t been frivolous enough to stuff these words into the mouth of a Moroccan man named Youssef. If you run into trouble at home, do not be surprised to run into trouble here. “If you are not smart at home…you will not be smart here.
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