Olivia Newman (“First Match”) will direct while Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are set to produce a film adaptation of Delia Owen’s best-selling murder mystery novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” at Hello Sunshine and Sony Pictures’ 300 Pictures label.
Running across two timelines, the story follows a young woman who 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 she is accused of murder of her former boyfriend – the town’s golden boy.
Lucy Alibar (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) is writing the script and Newman will oversee a rewrite and direct the project which is dubbed a blend of coming of age tale and dark thriller. It was the most-sold fiction book on Amazon in 2019.
Source: THR
