Olivia Newman will helm WhereTheCrawdadsSing, while Reese Witherspoon (ReeseW) and Elizabeth Gabler are set to produce
Olivia Newman, who wrote and directed Netflix feature, will helm Sony Pictures' feature adaptation of the Delia Owen's debut novel that has dominated thebestsellers list since it was published 2019. It was also the most-sold fiction book on Amazon for all of 2019.
Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are producing via their banner Hello Sunshine for 3000 Pictures, Sony's lit-minded feature label. The story follows Kya, a young woman that is abandoned by her family and is left alone to raise herself on a marsh outside a small North Carolina town. After she becomes a respected author, publishing reference books on the local flora and fauna of her marsh, she is accused of murder of her former boyfriend, the town's golden boy. The story is both a crime thriller and a coming-of-age tale that intertwines two timelines.scribe Lucy Alibar is writing the script.
Published by G.P. Putnam’s Son in August 2018, the book was plucked by Witherspoon as the pick of her book club in September 2018. It then took off, spending 97 weeks onbestseller list, is No. 1 in hardcover fiction and No. 1 in audio, and has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
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