Amy Poehler‘s directorial debut, “Wine Country,” hasn’t even premiered on Netflix yet, but the streaming platform has so much confidence in her as a filmmaker that they’re also distributing her second movie. Deadline is exclusively reporting that the next film for Amy Poehler as director will be “Moxie,” based on Jennifer Mathieu‘s novel and adapted by Tamara Chestna.
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Poehler blurbed the book for its publication, saying, “‘Moxie’ is sweet, funny, and fierce. Read this and then join the fight,” and her Paper Kite production company acquired the film rights to it. The publisher’s plot description reads:
“Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an 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 ’90s, 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.”
Poehler is fresh off co-creating your latest Netflix obsession, “Russian Doll,” and “Wine Country” is set to premiere on Netflix in May. The comedy marks a reunion for “Sisters” and “Saturday Night Live” co-stars Poehler and Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Paula Pell. Fellow “SNL” alum Ana Gasteyer also has a role, along with Emily Spivey, Maya Erskine, Jason Schwartzman and Cherry Jones.
Production for “Moxie” begins in the fall, so fingers crossed that we see this on our Netflix home screens next year.