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EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Meyers is juggling a couple projects for her next directing slot. One she has committed to is The Chelsea, a script that was written by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. She is the daughter of Meyers and her ex, filmmaker Charles Shyer. Like Crazy star Felicity Jones is attached to star, and the film is being packaged by Meyers’ reps at WME. It’s described as an ensemble dramedy set in the Chelsea Apartments in New York City. Meyers-Shyer is an up and coming scribe who’s being signed to a blind deal by Universal Pictures. 
Meyers, who last directed the Meryl Streep comedy It’s Complicated with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, will put together cast on the film before it is set up with a distributor. WME reps Meyers and Meyers-Shyer, while CAA reps Jones. The British actress, who won a Gotham Award for her charming performance in Like Crazy, was selected by Warren Beatty to be the young female lead in his Howard Hughes movie, but Beatty is still putting that project together.
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This project sounds wondeful
Way to go! It’s always great to see interesting and strong young female voices succeeding in this crazy business. You go, girl!
Well isn’t this lovely! So nice to hear about someone who has gotten ahead based ONLY on hard work, talent and starting at the bottom and working years to get somewhere in this town. Clearly she’s struggled and put in the years and time to get to where she is now, what with that blind deal and all. #sarcasm.
What an awful comment. It stands to reason that the daughter of two great writers just MIGHT also be a pretty good writer. Not every child of famous and talented parents should be punished because they are just that. I personally think Charles Shyer is a brilliant writer/director while I am not a fan of his ex as a director. BUT I am looking forward to seeing what their offspring can do and I don’t think I will be disappointed.
Good luck Hallie. Don’t let the bad comments get to you!
Hallie is stunningly beautiful but how good of a writer is she really? Her parents are wonderful writers she had every advantage growing up now she has a big deal at Universal. Why not take that money and use it to fund new writing talent? Invest in unknown writers who never had the benefits of growing up in luxury in Bel-Air and who struggle in anonymity far from the bright lights of Beverly Hills. Hallie will be just fine without this expensive deal. She doesn’t need it. If she’s so brilliant let her write on spec and sell what she writes when she writes it. Hallie should support this idea she should be all in favor of giving up money so unknown unconnected writers can get discovered.
So, um… have you ever read her? Do you know beyond the shadow of a doubt this young woman isn’t deserving of a blind script deal? I, personally, have never read anything she’s written, so I can’t say. Maybe she’s the next Tony Gilroy or Jamie Vanderbilt… or maybe she isn’t.
But, the fact is, she had the foresight to be born to a couple who are as close to screenwriting royalty as humanly possible, and you didn’t. Deal with it.
Screenwriting royalty…? I mean, they’re both capable writers and all, but come ON.
If they’re “screenwriting royalty”, what does that make, ohhh, Ben Hecht, then? Or Dudley Nichols? Or Bob Towne? Or Bill Goldman?
I think a little perspective might be in order.
It’s Complicated, Something’s Got To Give, Father of The Bride, Baby Boom, Private Benjiman, Goin’ South, Smokey & The Bandit, Happy Days, etc. All major studio or network stuff, the kind of stuff only A listers usually get. No, I am not a Meyers/Shyer fan, in fact, I actually dislike their little forays into romantic comedies and thought I Love Trouble and It’s Complicated are pretty much as insipid as you can get. But the fact is, they keep working, it’s corporately defensible to hire them, they’ve been doing it for coming up on forty years now; hence, they are close to screenwriting royalty. Do I consider them in the class of Ben Hecht or Robert Town or William Goldman? No. But the point I was making is that were you to desire to build a screenwriting career, you could do a lot worse than be born to Charles and Nancy.
I’ve had the displeasure to read the Chelsea…. It’s a bland and boring script that has no business being turned into a film…. #nepotism
This movie’s gonna show some nice furniture!
Yeah. No nepotism there.
Wonder if Mommy will get the movie to be under two and a half hours for a change?
Blind indeed.
Nancy is a brilliant director and Hallie has written a remarkably poised debut script, she’s an extraordinary new talent and no I don’t work for any of these people before the sour grapes snarkmeisters jump on me. Just a fan of this project it will be something super special
You’re making it worse.
HUM this is a joke – wonder who did the notes all the way through?
who pitched it and sold it? Nancy is mean but at least she seems to be nice to her kid
Nancy needs to learn where to put the camera she is always lost
I try to stay away from her.
@ Camera. I laughed out loud at your post. Thanks for that.
Hey Dorothy,
You should check IMDB on Nancy Meyers:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583600/
Not one of her films is over 2.5 hours. Good try!
Excited for this movie!
Perhaps she just meant they feel that long. Because they do.
I’ve read Hallie’s script
it is excellent
she is a talented writer.
You must mean the Chelsea Hotel (or Hotel Chelsea, as it’s better known), not the Chelsea Apartments. What are the Chelsea Apartments?
Clearly none of you guys have read script, Hallie is brilliant, quick, smart and funny. Everyone that has read this script said it sounded just like one of Nancy’s movie so it’s only fitting Nancy would direct it. Nancy is one of the top woman filmakers of our time and I cannot wait to see this movie. All of you are haters and jealous. Can’t wait for these 2 to collaborate!
I would like to personally apologize to Halle and Nancy Meyers for my previous comments above. Upon hearing this news, I was very obviously filled with hate. Filled with jealousy that my parents don’t work in the industry, thus granting me an easier road to success. But, now I’ve read Miss Meyers script, and it’s actually really good. She deserves this, and I am just a bitter, lazy, tool, who very obviously has no talent and will never make it in Hollywood.
A new Nancy Meyers movie? Lemme guess, an all white cast playing a bunch of upper class socialites with romantic issues. How fascinating.
Hallie is an incredible writer who has busted her ass to get to where she is now. You have to love the blind hate by commenters here. Grow up. This script is well crafted and her mother should be so lucky to direct it!
The script happens to be fantastic…incredibly smart, funny and sophisticated. Talent clearly runs in the family. What an exciting collaboration this will be…can’t wait for it!
What’s the story here exactly? That the girl’s mother attached herself to direct? The script went out wide and every buyer in it town said no. And if you’ve read it, you’ll understand why.
Question. When every buyer in town passes on a script that goes wide, does it mean every studio passed, or every producer with a deal at a studio passed, or some combination of both? Thanks.
– New director in the business.
Its so predictable, and so tedious, when the talentless, resentful whiners rush to condemn Nancy Meyers and her work. Nancy knows how to write films women like to watch, and in this culture that’s something to be sneered at, clearly. I doubt the commenters, above, who are so quick to excoriate Meyers’ work, have ever taken a moment to eviscerate the writers of the trite, formulaic, incredibly boring “action” films the studios keep regurgitating, because they’re films that MEN like. And God forbid idiots like these self-proclaimed arbiters of cinematic standards should waste a moment criticizing the idiocy I see on screen when my sons or husband choose the movie the family will watch. You know what I think? I think the nasty comments above come from people who don’t have the talent or the drive to make a success of their own careers, and who spew their bile to try and hurt others, so they’ll feel better about themselves. And no, I’ve never met Nancy Meyers or her daughter. I am, however, a woman who worked hard and created a successful career in the public eye, who has borne criticism from those who resented my success because I was a woman in a field previously dominated by men, and from those who envied my success and weren’t willing to put in the sheer hard work to succeed themselves. Nancy Meyers, thank-you for your thoughtful, funny, enjoyable movies. Hallie Meyers-Shyer, good luck in your writing career. And let me give you a piece of advice: When you read nasty comments like those above, written by angry people who resent your success, just say to yourself, “These people are unhappy folks just looking around for targets. They sound furious. The news of my good fortune ruined their day. I’m happy. I have a script that will be produced and a great deal for future work. I win!”