French-American actress/writer Anna Chazelle is set to direct a film adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s posthumously published crime novel “The Trespassers” first penned in 1958.
The story unfolds from the POV of a young wife who becomes increasingly frustrated with her mild-mannered husband.
When the husband refuses to confront some men who are illegally hunting on the couple’s remote homestead, his wife takes matters into her own hands.
Troy Blake adapted the screenplay while Megan Freels Johnston and Nick Terry produce.
Chazelle marks first female director to helm a film adaptation of a Leonard work following in the wake of Quentin Tarantino (“Jackie Brown”), James Mangold (“3:10 to Yuma”), Steven Soderbergh (“Out of Sight”), Barry Sonnenfeld (“Get Shorty”), F. Gary Gray (“Be Cool”), and John Frankenheimer (“52 Pick-Up”). Leonard’s work also inspired FX’s acclaimed series “Justified”.
Source: Deadline
