Selena Gomez is back on the acting wagon as she is set to play a lead role in the Nextflix mini-series, "13 Reasons Why."
The series is based on the 2007 best-selling novel of the same title by Jay Asher.
Selena Gomez will be playing the main character in "13 Reasons Why" named Hanna Baker, a high school student who commits suicide and leaves a box of cassette tapes which she sends out to all the people who have contributed to her decision to take her life.
No word yet as to who will play the role of Clay Jensen, a boy whose had a crush on Hanna Baker and who is one of the people who received the said tapes.
According to Variety, Netflix is now in final negotiations for the adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel.
The mini-series will be under Anonymous Content and Paramount TV with a screenplay written by playwright Brian Yorkey, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a three-time Tony Awards winner.
"13 Reasons Why" was originally supposed to be developed as a feature film at Universal before the former Disney star and her mother brought it to Anonymous Content and Paramount.
Aside from her starring in "13 Reasons Why", Selena Gomez is also reportedly executive producing the said project, alongside her mom, Mandy Teefey and Kristel Laiblin.
Should the new mini-series be pushed through, it will be the first time the singer-actress will be appearing on the small screen (TV, computer, mobile phone or wherever you get your Netflix) since being in Disney's "Wizards of Waverly Place."
News of Selena Gomez taking on the Netflix adaptation of "13 Reasons Why" comes after confessing that she had undergone chemotherapy for lupus disease.
"I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy," Gomez previously told Billboard Magazine. "I wanted so badly to say, 'You guys have no idea. I'm in chemotherapy. You're assholes.' I locked myself away until I was confident and comfortable again."
