Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar.

In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new adaptation of Plath’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Bell Jar.

Following Esther Greenwood, a brilliant student whose depression consumes her over the course of a New York City summer, The Bell Jar has been in the production pipeline almost as long as it’s been on high-school summer reading lists.

Julia Stiles, Rose McGowan, Kirsten Dunst, Dakota Fanning, and Frankie Shaw have all been attached to reboots at various points over the past twenty years. They follow a path first trod by the bestselling novel’s first adaptation in 1979, which featured Julie Harris and Marilyn Hassett.

As reigning bard of the sad girls, Eilish feels like an auspicious and thoroughly modern candidate for Esther. Though she is new to film acting. (Not counting those powerhouse Grammy performances, an SNL appearance, or documentary interviews, her previous narrative credits amount to a single episode of Amazon’s Swarm.)

Sarah Polley, on the other hand, always has our vote of confidence. The nuanced Canadian director behind Women Talking (which she adapted from the Miriam Toews novel of the same name, winning said Oscar in the process), Stories We Tell, and Take This Waltz has a special knack for rendering troubled girlhood. After all, she started out in front of the camera, playing Ramona Quimby.

Even given a crackerjack team, one wonders if there’s a reason previous cool queens like Kirsten and Julia couldn’t get the Jar green lit. Can a piece about internal weather make a convincing leap to the big screen? I have style questions, also. Will we stay in the 60s? Will the soundtrack contain new bops? Where’s FINNEAS in all this?

But because Billie’s taught me to beware getting “everything I wanted,” this Plath fan will attempt to sit tight. Shooting dates are yet to be announced.