Naomi Watts & Jessica Lange to star in Gia Coppola’s upcoming feature "The Secret Life Of The Lonely Doll"

Variety reports that Naomi Watts and Jessica Lange have signed on to co-star in the upcoming indie The Secret Life Of The Lonely Doll. The feature will be directed by Gia Coppola, who wrote and directed James Franco’s Palo Alto, based on the short story collection by Franco.

The Secret Life Of The Lonely Doll was adapted for screen by Merritt Johnson (Temple Grandin) and follows the story of Dare Wright, author of a bestselling children’s book from the 1950s called The Lonely Doll. The Secret Life pieces together Wright’s fractured life that was both glamorous and isolating—much like the life of a lonely doll, presumably. Journalist Jean Nathan wrote the book after finding Wright living out her final days in a run-down public hospital in Queens, New York, decades after Wright became a household name for The Lonely Doll.