The studio declined to comment.

UTA brokered the movie auction.

Hathaway will produce through Somewhere Pictures banner along Guymon Casady, Suzan Bymel & Alexandra Holcomb of Entertainment 360.

‘Yesteryear’ film rights auction

(L-R) Anne Hathaway and ‘Yesteryear’ author Caro Claire BurkeMichael Buckner for Deadline/Riley Haakon

Yesteryearis about Natalie, a woman who lives a traditional lifestyle.

What Natalies followers all 8 million of them dont know wont hurt them.

And The Angry Women?

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The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast?

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Then she wakes up in a life that isnt hers.

Her home, her husband, her children theyre all familiar, but somethings off.

Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show?

Could it really be time travel?

Is she being tested by God?

The Amazon MGM execs in the mix had a plan that wowed the author.

Hathaway is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360.

The author is repped by UTA.