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Director Dustin Lance Black has tapped Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”) to star in “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight”, an adaptation of the popular YA novel written by Jennifer E. Smith.
The flick, which Bruna Papandrea, Caroline Kaplan and Steve Hutensky are producing, will be spruiked at AFM in November.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is set over a 24-hour-period and “follows a girl who, while stuck at JFK aiport as she makes her way to London for her father’s second wedding, meets a boy who seems perfect. The story is described as being “about family connections, second chances and first loves, will make you believe that true love finds you when you’re least expecting it”.
Steinfeld next appears in Kyle Newman’s “Barely Lethal” and the musequel “Pitch Perfect 2”.
