For those that don’t know who Adrienne Shelly is, she wrote, directed and acted in this year’s Waitress along with plenty of other films, but that was her most recent and unfortunately her last. You see, Shelly was murdered last year in New York City, she was found hanging by a bedsheet from a shower rod in the bathroom of her Manhattan office/apartment by her husband. 19-year-old Diego Pillco, an illegal immigrant and construction worker confessed to the crime days later. Story was that he punched her after she complained about the noise he was making in a West Village apartment building where her office is located, killing her. He then allegedly dragged the body up to her office, and positioned her in the shower to make her death look like a suicide. This isn’t one of those sob stories where I am going to say how sad I am, because I didn’t know or meet Shelly, but the particulars of this one are just shocking to me, especially since I learned about it only hours after watching (and enjoying) Waitress.
As for this new bit of news, Cheryl Hines, who also starred in Waitress, will be making her feature directorial debut with one of Shelly’s screenplays, Serious Moonlight.
The film is a dark comedy about a troubled marriage on the precipice centering on a high-powered female attorney who learns that her husband is about to leave her for another woman, then prevents him from doing so by binding him to the toilet with duct tape.
Filming is scheduled to start shooting in early December in Los Angeles.
