Harvey Weinstein has optioned Get Happy and will produce a stage show and film based on biography of entertainer Judy Garland. Both are slated to star Anne Hathaway; to date no other creative personnel have been named. Anne Hathaway 'll plays in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland as Judy Garland.Anne Hathaway 'll play the iconic performer based on the biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The novel, written by Gerald Clarke, includes hundreds of interviews and Garland’s own writing from an unpublished autobiography. The productions 'll chronicle the early years as a child actress to her battle with addiction to her accidental drug overdose in 1969.
According to the trades, the Weinstein Company isn’t sure which will come first, the play or the movie. Hathaway will likely be singing in it (since after all it is Judy Garland) and showed she could belt out the notes at this year’s Oscar telecast alongside Hugh Jackman.