Salma Hayek, Anne Hathaway Team for Netflix's "Seesaw Monster" Film Adaptation

Netflix has landed movie rights to Kōtarō Isaka's 2019 novel "Seesaw Monster", with Salma Hayek Pinault and Anne Hathaway attached to star as well as produce.

Olivia Milch is set to adapt the screenplay; no director has been attached to the project as of yet.

Isaka’s novel "Maria Beetle", about a train ride of five assassins, was recently adapted into the David Leitch actioner "Bullet Train", starring Brad Pitt. It performed well at the domestic box office and internationally.

While details on the Seesaw Monster adaptation are being kept under wraps, but Hayek Pinault and Hathaway will play rivals forced to work together in an action comedy two-hander. 

The few descriptions about Seesaw Monster to be found online bill it as a story taking place between the Japan of the Showa era and 2050.

 It is centered around the relationship between a wife and her mysterious mother-in-law.

The producers are Akiva Goldsman and Gregory Lessans for Weed Road Pictures; Hayek Pinault for Ventanarosa Productions; Anne Hathaway for Somewhere Pictures; and Bullet Train producers Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada for CTB Inc.

Jose Tamez and Siobhan Flynn for Ventanarosa Productions, Adam Shulman and Johnathan Rice for Somewhere Pictures will executive produce alongside Milch.