Deadline reports that “creative differences” have driven yet another female director away from a high profile project. This time it’s Sofia Coppola dropping out of the live action version of The Little Mermaid for Universal. The project isn’t dead, of course. They’re forging ahead and will be likely attaching another director. At this rate, though, they’re going to need to start taking chanced on lesser known female directors if they want to hire women after other women drop out.
Thankfully, there is a website called The Director List has a searchable database of 850 female directors. Surely there might be one in there worth getting to know, eh, Hollywood?