Question: Who is the director of the upcoming American comedy-drama film starring the actress who played the role of Spencer Hastings in Freeform's "Pretty Little Liars"?

full_context: Document 1: Lucy Hale: Karen Lucille Hale (born June 14, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Earlier in her career, she was sometimes credited as Lucy Kate Hale. Hale first came to prominence as one of the five winners of the reality show "American Juniors", a children's spin off of "American Idol". She is best known for her role as Aria Montgomery on the Freeform series "Pretty Little Liars", which won her a People's Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Actress in 2014. The same year, she released her debut studio album, "Road Between".
Document 2: Go (1999 film): Go is a 1999 American crime comedy film written by John August and directed by Doug Liman, with intertwining plots involving three sets of characters. The film stars William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Sarah Polley, and Scott Wolf and features Taye Diggs, Breckin Meyer, Timothy Olyphant, Desmond Askew, Jane Krakowski, J. E. Freeman, and Melissa McCarthy in her film debut. The film performed moderately at the box office, but was critically acclaimed. It has since become a cult classic.
Document 3: The Diary of a Teenage Girl: The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a 2015 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the graphic novel "" by Phoebe Gloeckner. The film stars Bel Powley as a 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active by starting a relationship with her mother's boyfriend. It also stars Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Quinn Nagle, and Austin Lyon. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited release on August 7, 2015 by Sony Pictures Classics.
Document 4: Aria Montgomery: Aria Marie Montgomery is a fictional character in the "Pretty Little Liars" series by Sara Shepard. She is portrayed by Lucy Hale in the television adaptation, which premiered on ABC Family in June 2010. Lucy Hale was named Choice Summer TV Star: Female at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards and 2011 Teen Choice Awards for her role in the series.
Document 5: Richard Linklater: Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture. In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
Document 6: Brie Larson: Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, musician and director. Born in Sacramento, California, Larson was home schooled before she studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. She began her acting career in television, appearing as a regular on the 2001 sitcom "Raising Dad", for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Document 7: Alex Drake (Pretty Little Liars): Alexandra "Alex" Drake is a fictional character created by I. Marlene King and portrayed by Troian Bellisario for the American television series "Pretty Little Liars". She was officially introduced during the series' final episode "Till Death Do Us Part", revealed to be Spencer Hastings' identical twin sister as well as the elusive "A.D.". Alex believed the Liars knew who was accountable for Charlotte Drake's homicide and was also set on physically replacing Spencer due to being jealous of the upbringing that she was able to have. She was adopted by a wealthy British family that later abandoned her, forcing Alex to bounce around foster homes and orphanages for a large portion of her childhood. She is believed to be the deadliest antagonist of the series.
Document 8: Friends with Kids: Friends with Kids is a 2011 American romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, who also stars in the film. Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Edward Burns, Megan Fox and Jon Hamm also star in the film.
Document 9: Spencer Hastings: Spencer Hastings is a fictional character, one of the five main characters who appeared in the "Pretty Little Liars" novels and its television adaptation. Created in 2006 by American writer Sara Shepard, she is member of the group known as the Liars, and is best friend to the four other members, who are also protagonists. The character was developed for television by the series' showrunner I. Marlene King, and appeared in each of the show’s 160 episodes during its seven-years-long run, from its premiere on June 8, 2010 to its finale on June 27, 2017. Spencer is known in the fictional town of Rosewood for her sophisticated charm and dedication to life goals. She is part of the extremely rich, powerful, old family Hastings; Spencer's parents, Veronica and Peter, are both linked to politics and her sister, Melissa, is likewise intelligent and uses her sarcasm and success to affect Spencer psychologically whenever possible. Spencer's characteristics and story have the same methodology in both books and television; however, there are some perceptual differences between the versions, since the television series doesn't follows the books' scripts.
Document 10: Bernie (2011 film): Bernie is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, and written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth. The film stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a 1998 "Texas Monthly" magazine article by Hollandsworth, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas," that chronicles the 1996 murder of 80-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas by her 39-year-old companion, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede. Tiede proved so highly regarded in Carthage that, in spite of having confessed to the police, the district attorney was eventually forced to request a rare prosecutorial change of venue in order to secure a fair trial.
Document 11: Melissa Hastings: Melissa Hastings is a fictional character in the "Pretty Little Liars" franchise. Created in 2006 by Sara Shepard for the book series, the character was later reworked by I. Marlene King, the developer of the television series, in which she is portrayed by Torrey DeVitto. An antiheroine, Melissa is primarily sister to protagonist Spencer Hastings, and the daughter of Peter and Veronica Hastings. She is a fierce woman who does everything to succeed in her life goals. In print, she is a guest character, while on screen Melissa has a much bigger presence in the story.
Document 12: Away We Go: Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film's two leads are John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph.
Document 13: Troian Bellisario: Troian Avery Bellisario ( ; born October 28, 1985) is an American actress, writer, producer and director. She is known for playing the role of Spencer Hastings in Freeform's "Pretty Little Liars". She is the daughter of producers Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt. Born in Los Angeles, California. Bellisario made her acting debut in her father's 1988 film "Last Rites" at the age of three. She continued to have roles produced by her father, mainly in television shows such as "Quantum Leap", "First Monday", and "NCIS", and in 1998, she acted in the direct-to-video comedy film "Billboard Dad". In 2010, she received praise for her leading performance in the film "Consent" for which she won the Vision Fest Award for Best Acting by a Female Lead and the FirstGlance Philadelphia Award for Best Actress.
Document 14: Where'd You Go, Bernadette (film): Where'd You Go, Bernadette is an upcoming American comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Linklater, from a screenplay by Linklater, Holly Gent Palmo, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Maria Semple. It stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Troian Bellisario and James Urbaniak.
Document 15: On the Basis of Sex: On the Basis of Sex is an upcoming American drama film directed by Mimi Leder and written by Daniel Stiepleman. The film stars Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer.
ground_truth: Richard Linklater