EXCLUSIVE: Anna Chazelle is set to direct the latest film adaptation in the Elmore Leonard literary canon. The French-American actress, writer, and producer will helm The Trespassers, the crime novel which was not published until after Leonard’s death in 2013.Written in 1958, the story is told 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 which is being produced by Megan Freels Johnston, the granddaughter of the late crime novelist, via her Look At Me Films, along with Nick Terry at Zero Gravity Management.Said
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