Deadline is reporting that Emma Watson is set to star in While We’re Young, another book adaption directed by her Perks of Being a Wallflower director Stephen Chbosky. The book titled 29, written by Adena Halpern, is about a 75 year old woman named Ellie who makes a wish to be 29 again like her granddaughter Lucy.

Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything she can to stay young, and the last thing she wants is to celebrate another birthday. So when she finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, Ellie wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true?

29 is the story of three generations of women and how one magical day shakes up everything they know about each other. While Ellie finds that the life of a twenty-something is not as carefree as she expected, the sheer joy of being young again prompts her to consider living her life all over. Does she dare stay young for more than this day, even if it means leaving everyone she loves behind?

Emma’s role in the film has not been announced but we can safely assume she will either play Lucy or Ellie at age 29.

This is the newest in a number of new films Emma is attached to. Others include Beauty and the Beast, Your Voice In My Head and executive produce/star in Queen Of The Tearling.

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