A film adaptation of Emma Straub ‘s “ American Fantasy ” novel is in development from “Imperfect Women” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss . Optioned by Moss and Lindsey McManus’s Love & Squalor Pictures, “American Fantasy” was published by Penguin Random House in April 2026. The story follows Annie, a recently divorced woman who boards a nostalgia cruise headlined by the ’90s boy band that soundtracked her adolescence — only to find herself unexpectedly reckoning with who she was