Jackie Collins is a Fish Out of Water

Jackie Collins will return to the big screen for the first time since the late 1970s. The bestselling author has pacted with Anonymous Content and Focus Features to develop the romantic comedy Fish Out of Water.

The script is being written by Ardwight Chamberlain, based on a story by Collins. The central character is a young woman from the Midwest who comes to Hollywood to marry a studio mogul and finds herself in rich-and-famous central but unexpectedly falls in love with the caterer.

While Collins was involved in a run of screen projects of the late '70s that included The Stud, The B*tch and The World Is Full of Married Men, all of the author's work since then has been produced for television.