Chism To Direct Halle Berry In 'Nappily Ever After'

Tina Chism has come aboard to adapt Universal Pictures' "Nappily Ever After," reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on a Trisha Thomas novel that Marc Platt is producing with Halle Berry attached to star. The novel, described as being in the vein of "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Waiting to Exhale," follows a black woman's journey to self-discovery. It's about Venus Johnston, who one day on impulse stops fussing with long, processed straight hair, cuts it short and kicks out her commitment-phobic live-in boyfriend. Discovering a newfound personal freedom within, she is unprepared for the way friends and co-workers weigh in about her new 'do and is shocked when her former man finds a replacement gal who sports her old hairstyle -- long, straight and equally processed.

Berry also is producing the project with her manager Vincent Cirrincione and Angela DeJoseph.