Zoë Foster Blake intends to forge a new career in television.
The Go-To skincare mogul, 44, just sold the TV rights to her new novel Things Will Calm Down Soon.
And there’s a chance that Nicole Kidman will play the book’s main character: a businesswoman who resembles the real-life Blake.
TV tonight reported on Friday that Blake had reached a deal with Sydney-based company Made Up Stories, which plans to make the book as a series in the US.
The high-profile team is led by producer Bruna Papandrea, who has a strong relationship with Kidman.
The Hollywood superstar has already starred in several Made Up Stories productions, including HBO’s The Undoing in 2020 and 2021’s Nine Perfect Strangers, as well as the Apple+ anthology series Roar in 2022.
The Oscar winner, 57, also co-produced the 2017 HBO hit Big Little Lies with Papandrea.
Blake, who shares Sonny, eight, and Rudy, five, with her husband, radio star Hamish, also announced she will executive produce the new series.
Beauty entrepreneur Zoë Foster Blake is set to forge a new career in television after selling the rights to her new novel Things Will Calm Down Soon (pictured).
Released earlier this month, Things Will Calm Down Soon centers on a 30-year-old stylist named Kit who sets out to launch her own line of products.
But things get complicated when the would-be corporate tycoon becomes entangled with investors amid romantic disappointment and family lawsuits.
“As a founder, mother and book lover, I knew immediately that I had to bring Zoë’s brilliant, complex and aspirational book to life as a television series set in America,” Papandrea said in a statement.
TV Tonight reported on Friday that Blake has struck a deal with Sydney-based company Made Up Stories, which plans to make the book as a series in the U.S. Pictured: Nicole Kidman has a close partnership with the producers after starring in several of his programs.
She continued, “I continue to inspire me to do super fun things that I desperately want to see, and the world needs to meet Kit, a woman who reminds me of so many amazing women I know.”
Meanwhile, Blake said she was “excited” that Made Up Stories is set to adapt her book.
Well-known author Blake’s 2014 adult novel, The Wrong Girl, was later adapted into a short-lived Channel 10 series of the same name in 2016.
It comes after Blake recently revealed the toll balancing motherhood and her multimillion-dollar career has taken on her mental health.
In an interview with stellar magazine Last month she said:
“You get into that survivor mentality when you’re super beat up, and knowing that you’ll eventually calm down is the carrot to dangle, but most women I know say, ‘This is how we live our lives; Things will calm down soon.” Guess what? They don’t.
He continued: ‘I feel like there’s a lot of awareness about the mental load, something we didn’t even have a name for, and the administrative load, and the overstimulation. I’m like, “Oh, I’m not a bitch, I’m just overstimulated.”
The Hollywood superstar has already starred in several Made Up Stories productions, including HBO’s The Undoing in 2020 and 2021’s Nine Perfect Strangers (pictured), as well as the Apple+ anthology series Roar in 2022.
‘My friends text me and say, “Another book? How are you doing?” There is a genuine curiosity and my genuine answer is: at great cost: to my mental health, to my time with my family, to my physical health.
“The things that have been in store for me to be able to finish this project and do it well are enormous.”
The businesswoman recently broke her silence by buying back her stake in her skincare brand Go-To after beauty company BWX went into administration.
The Australian author first sold her 51.5 per cent stake in her beauty brand to the ASX-listed beauty conglomerate for $89 million in 2021.
But just two years later, Blake and Go-To co-founder Paul Bates bought back their majority stake in the business for a fraction of the price at $21.8 million after BWX collapsed into administration in April 2023.