Dave McNary Film ReporterFrances McDormand is producing and starring in a film adaptation of the novel “Women Talking,” with Sarah Polley directing for MGM’s recently launched Orion Pictures.Orion and Plan B announced the project on Thursday.
Polley will direct from her own script, based on Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel “Women Talking.” McDormand is producing via her Hear/Say Productions.
She brought the project initially to Plan B after acquiring the rights.“Women Talking,” which was published in 2018, follows a group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
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