{"id":225150,"date":"2026-04-20T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/?p=225150"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:33:41","slug":"martha-stewart-biopic-movie-new-jersey-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/martha-stewart-biopic-movie-new-jersey-native\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Native Martha Stewart to Be Portrayed in New Biopic <em>Good Thing<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"custom_featured_image\" style=\"display:none;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"martha stewart new jersey biopic good thing\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><div id=\"custom_category\" style=\"display:none;\">celebs<\/div><p>In New Jersey, the highest honor you can bestow upon a celebrity is naming <a href=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/jerseyshore\/rest-stops-service-areas-new-jersey-garden-state-parkway\/\">a Garden State Parkway service area after them<\/a>. The second-highest honor, maybe, is a biopic. The GSP will remain without a Martha Stewart rest stop (for now), but the certified Jersey legend is getting&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">silver-screen treatment with a new movie called&nbsp;<em>Good Thing<\/em>, which depicts<\/span>&nbsp;her life, career, and legacy. Born in Jersey City and raised in Nutley, Martha&#8217;s story as a businesswoman, television personality, author, and lifestyle maven starts right here in the Garden State. Cate Blanchett is slated to portray Martha in the film. <strong>Keep reading to learn more about <em>Good Thing<\/em>, the new movie depicting the life and legacy of New Jersey native, Martha Stewart.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-225158 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing.jpg\" alt=\"martha stewart new jersey biopic good thing\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/04\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-biopic-good-thing-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Martha Stewart Gets Biopic Treatment<\/h3>\n<p>Per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/cate-blanchett-martha-stewart-biopic-movie-1236721886\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>, Cate Blanchett is confirmed to star in an upcoming Martha Stewart biopic called&nbsp;<em>Good Thing<\/em>. The title refers to Martha&#8217;s popular catch phrase, &#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing.&#8221; Director Janicza Bravo is at the helm of the project, with Blanchett cited as a producer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, Martha all but prophesied the movie, sharing with&nbsp;<em>Variety&nbsp;<\/em>in a red carpet interview that &#8220;she was &#8216;hearing rumors&#8217; that something was already in the works&#8230;&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/martha-stewart-biopic-is-coming-11952657\"><em>MarthaStewart.com<\/em><\/a>. Beyond the film&#8217;s leading lady, Martha seems in the dark about the rest of the details.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themontclairgirl.com\/famous-women-from-new-jersey\/\">33 Famous Women From New Jersey<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This news comes after the success of&nbsp;<em>Martha<\/em>, the nearly two-hour 2024 Netflix documentary that recounted Martha&#8217;s life through a sit-down interview and narratives from people close to her. The documentary travels through the many iterations of her life: her humble beginnings in New Jersey, her teenage modeling career, her time as a student in NYC, her brief stint on Wall Street, her catering business, her author era, the rise and fall and rise again of her media company, her time in prison, and post-prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themontclairgirl.com\/martha-stewart-documentary-nutley-jersey-city-nj\/\"><em>The Montclair Girl&nbsp;<\/em>said of the movie in 2024<\/a>: &#8220;No matter who Martha was at any given point in the story \u2014 or who she is now at 83 years old \u2014 there\u2019s an underlying sentiment that she is first and foremost &#8216;a girl from New Jersey,&#8217; and that this identifier made way for the ones that would follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what portion of Martha&#8217;s life <em>Good Thing&nbsp;<\/em>will focus on and if her New Jersey upbringing will play a major role in the story. But given how much the media mogul has referenced her roots \u2014 &#8220;here\u2019s this girl from a family of eight in Nutley, New Jersey, living modestly, who gets a good idea, builds it into something really fine&#8221; \u2014 we&#8217;re feeling pretty confident that our great state will at least get a shout-out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Martha&#8217;s New Jersey Roots<\/h3>\n<p>On August 3, 1941, Martha Helen Kostyra was born in Jersey City at Margaret Hague Hospital. The daughter of Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Kostyra and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra, Martha is the second of six siblings: Laura Plimpton, Frank Kostyra, Kathryn Evans, George Christiansen, and Eric Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobokengirl.com\/martha-stewart-documentary-jersey-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous reporting from our team<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<em>The Hoboken Girl<\/em>, Martha\u2019s grandparents emigrated from Poland to Jersey City in the 1920s. For the first few years of Martha\u2019s life, her family called Jersey City Heights home, on the second floor of an apartment on Stagg Street. In 2018, she visited her former family residence and shared it on Instagram.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BnG8Z4KAtve\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BnG8Z4KAtve\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Martha Stewart (@marthastewart48)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When Martha was three years old, her family swapped city living for the suburbs and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themontclairgirl.com\/best-coffee-shops-nutley-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved to Nutley, New Jersey<\/a>, where she spent most of her adolescence. The family lived at 86 Elm Place, which was up for sale in 2023, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/martha-stewart-new-jersey-childhood-home-for-sale-7499873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MarthaStewart.com<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Martha left New Jersey to study on scholarship at Barnard College in New York City. She never returned to Garden State as a resident, but she \u201calways remembered [her] youth with great fondness,\u201d she recalled during her induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in October 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>See More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobokengirl.com\/new-jersey-media-2026-nj\/\">Movies + TV Shows Filmed in New Jersey Coming Out in 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Good<\/em> <em>Thing<\/em>, the new Martha Stewart biopic, is in the early stages of planning with no set release date. Of course, we&#8217;ll keep you updated as details unfold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow @thenewjerseygirl_ on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thenewjerseygirl_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> to stay in the know with all of the local news and check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">events calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"categories\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thelocalgirl.com\/newjersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stories<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>celebsIn New Jersey, the highest honor you can bestow upon a celebrity is naming a Garden State Parkway service area after them.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":225158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1,15,40],"tags":[43,7],"class_list":["post-225150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-people","category-the-local-girl","tag-new-jersey","tag-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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