Sony Buys Film Rights To The Great Alone

Coming Soon reports that Sony has bought the film rights to Kristin Hannah’s upcoming novel the Great Alone. The book is said to be thematically linked to her last novel The NightingaleNew York Times bestseller list. A film version of that movie is already in production with Michelle MacLaren directing. The Nightingale “portrays the horrors of World War II through the lens of two sisters in France that come of age during the Nazi occupation.”

Here’s a synopsis for The Great Alone: In The Great Alone, a family decides to move to Alaska, where they will live off the grid, in a desperate bid to find peace, restoration, freedom. But when the darkness of winter falls, out in the wild, there is no one to save them except themselves. Like Kristin Hannah’s international bestselling novel, The Nightingale, which illuminated the breathtaking courage of the women of the French Resistance in World War II France, The Great Alone focuses on fiercely independent women in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who must fight each day to survive.

The book will be released by St. Martin’s Press tomorrow. The film will be produced by Elizabeth Cantillon of the Cantillon Company and Laura Quicksilver. TriStar Pictures will develop, with Nicole Brown overseeing.