HandMade Films has hired Charles Shyer to direct "
Eloise in Paris," the first of several planned bigscreen adaptations of the Kay Thompson-Hilary Knight children's book series about the precocious kid who lives in Gotham's Plaza Hotel.
Shyer will write the script with Larry Spencer and Hallie Meyers-Shyer. The latter is Shyer's 19-year old daughter, whose mother is the writer-director Nancy Meyers. A February production start is planned, and the film will shoot in London, Paris and New York.