<p class="title">Kirsten Dunst is no longer attached to direct the big-screen adaptation of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 37-year-old actor, who was set to make her feature film directorial debut with the project, said the film had now changed hands.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I never owned (the rights), so it went away for me. It went to other hands. That's not in my hands anymore," Dunst told Entertainment Weekly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, a source close to the project has confirmed that Dakota Fanning is still involved in a version of the 1963 novel, currently in development as a Showtime limited series without Dunst.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dunst was announced to direct the film in July 2016 from a screenplay she co-wrote with Nellie Kim. Fanning was attached to lead the cast.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dunst previously helmed two shorts: "Welcome" (2007) and "Bastard" (2010).</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Bell Jar" is Plath's only novel written just before she committed suicide in 1963.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The story, written by Plath under pseudonym Victoria Lucas, revolves around a young woman called Esther Greenwood, who used to work as a magazine intern in New York City before having a mental breakdown upon travelling home to Boston. </p>
<p class="title">Kirsten Dunst is no longer attached to direct the big-screen adaptation of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 37-year-old actor, who was set to make her feature film directorial debut with the project, said the film had now changed hands.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I never owned (the rights), so it went away for me. It went to other hands. That's not in my hands anymore," Dunst told Entertainment Weekly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, a source close to the project has confirmed that Dakota Fanning is still involved in a version of the 1963 novel, currently in development as a Showtime limited series without Dunst.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dunst was announced to direct the film in July 2016 from a screenplay she co-wrote with Nellie Kim. Fanning was attached to lead the cast.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dunst previously helmed two shorts: "Welcome" (2007) and "Bastard" (2010).</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Bell Jar" is Plath's only novel written just before she committed suicide in 1963.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The story, written by Plath under pseudonym Victoria Lucas, revolves around a young woman called Esther Greenwood, who used to work as a magazine intern in New York City before having a mental breakdown upon travelling home to Boston. </p>