Julia Roberts to Star in ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ at Apple TV+

Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon are joining forces for a new project headed to Apple TV+. Roberts is set to star in and executive produce an adaptation of Laura Dave’s novel, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” with Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine company attached to produce.

Apple has given a straight-to-series order to the project, which is created and adapted by Dave with her husband, Spotlight screenwriter and Academy Award winner Josh Singer, marking the couple’s second collaboration. Dave’s novel follows a woman who forms an unexpected relationship with her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared, according to Apple. The Last Thing He Told Me series will be executive produced by Hello Sunshine’s Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter, with Roberts, Marisa Yeres Gill and Lisa Gillan through their Red Om Films banner, plus Dave and Singer.

“The Last Thing He Told Me” was snatched up and optioned from Dave before before it even hit the shelves — the upcoming mystery won’t be released until May 2021. Including her latest, Dave has written six books throughout her career, including the bestseller “Eight Hundred Grapes,” but “The Last Thing He Told Me ” is her first novel to be adapted for TV. In 2017, Deadline reported that Dave’s “Hello, Sunshine” had been scooped up by Amy Pascal, with Dave and Singer set to adapt the novel for film.

Roberts and Witherspoon both have worked with Apple TV+ in the past year, with Roberts starring in the streamer’s series Homecoming and Witherspoon executive producing and starring in the critically-acclaimed drama The Morning Show. Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine has developed multiple series for Apple TV+ in the past, including the upcoming psychological thriller Surface, music series My Kind of Country, and Truth Be Told starring Octavia Spencer and Kate Hudson.