HAVE YOU HEARD THE BIG, BIG, BIG NEWS?

Amy Poehler second directorial project will be Moxie. Tamara Chestna will be writing the script adaptation of the Jennifer Mathieu novel, which Poehler’s Paper Kite acquired last year. Poehler will produce through her Paper Kite banner along with Veep’s Morgan Sackett and Paper Kite development director Kim Lessing. Moxie tells the story of a 16-year-old girl from a small town who is inspired by her mother’s past as part of the underground punk movement Riot Grrrl, and uses it as the catalyst to start a feminist revolution at her high school.

WE ARE SO EXCITED!

And now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go reread Moxie! Join us, won't you?

UPDATE:

We have some Moxie casting news! Hadley Robinson will play Vivian and Lauren Tsai will play Claudia. Filming will start at the end of this month (October!). Robinson stars in the upcoming Amazon series, Utopia, and will appear in Sony’s Little Women remake from Greta Gerwig. Tsai starred in the Japanese reality series, Terrace House: Aloha State, and recently made her acting debut on the third season of FX’s Legion.

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK! Vivan Carter is fed up. Fed up with a school administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the 90's, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.