Lulu Wang to Adapt 'Audition' in Partnership With Higher Ground, Laika

Lulu Wang is ready to "Audition." The celebrated filmmaker behind "The Farewell" has been tapped to write (along with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok) and direct an adaptation of "Audition," Katie Kitamura's Booker Prize longlisted novel, for Laika and Higher Ground. Lucy Liu and Charles Melton are set to star. Wang's production company Local Time will also produce. "Audition" is described as "a twisty thriller that follows a celebrated actress enjoying a charmed, bohemian life in Manhattan with her creative husband. That is until a mysterious young man . . .