Anne Hathaway is no stranger to high-profile book adaptations, and she just boarded another one. The Oscar-winning actress will star in and produce Yesteryear, the Amazon MGM drama based on Caro Claire Burke’s upcoming book of the same name.
Yesteryear centers on Natalie, a “trad wife” living on a charming, rustic, and artfully cluttered farm with her handsome cowboy husband and six children. She has a following of eight million people, who don’t know there are nannies and producers helping her behind the scenes, while her kitchen is hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens.
Things take a wild turn when she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers, only to learn she’s somehow stuck in 1805. She goes from curating photos of homemade sourdough for her Instagram to hauling firewood and handwashing clothes and must figure out a way to get out after becoming pregnant with her new “husband’s” child.
Yesteryear was the subject of a hot summer auction, and Amazon MGM eventually won the bid. Hathaway will produce the project through the Somewhere Pictures banner, alongside Guymon Casady, Suzan Bymel, and Alexandra Holcomb of Entertainment 360.
Hathaway is fresh off starring in another hit Amazon MGM Studios film—the hit romantic comedy The Idea of You. She’s also attached to David Robert Mitchell’s sci-fi film Flowervale Street and David Lowery’s music epic Mother Mary.
