Actress Eva Longoria is set to direct the film adaptation of 'Anita de Monte Laughs Last' for Searchlight Pictures, reported Variety.

Xochitl Gonzalez will pen the screenplay based on her bestselling novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.

'Anita de Monte Laughs Last' has been described as "a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite," as quoted by Variety.