British actress Emily Blunt ("The Devil Wears Prada") will join Susan Sarandon in an adaptation of David Auburn's acclaimed play "The Girl in the Park" reports Production Weekly.
Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg (Sarandon) has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success.
But when Julia meets Louise (Blunt), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia's old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
Auburn ("The Lake House"), who wrote the script, will make his directorial debut on the film, scheduled to start shooting this fall in New York.
