"Little Miss Sunshine" directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are in negotiations to helm Warner Independent Pictures' adaptation of "The Abstinence Teacher".
Based on the forthcoming novel by Tom Perrotta ("Election", "Little Children"), the novel debuts in the fall and is set in small-town middle America.
The narrative follows a divorced sex-education teacher and mother of two is forced to contend with the town's more conservative groups.
While fighting to keep her freedom to teach students about sex, she finds herself falling for her daughter's born-again soccer coach.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Perrotta himself will pen the script with Dayton and Farris.
