Controversial Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has landed a Hollywood role in an upcoming movie. She will team up with English actress and model Millie Bobby Brown in an adaptation of acclaimed novel The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin.
Jellyfish tells the story of a young girl named Suzy as she enters seventh grade. When her former best friend dies in a drowning accident — and not believing her mother who says that sometimes “these things happen” — Suzy becomes convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting.
She retreats into a silent world of her imagination and begins crafting a globe-trotting plan to prove her theory, with the book exploring the ideas of life and death, the frailty of friendships and the potential of hope right next door.