McKinley Franklin author Tomorrow Studios has acquired adaptations rights to Jeannette Walls’ acclaimed novel “Hang the Moon,” and will develop it as a TV series, Variety has learned exclusively.
The novel tells the story of Sallie Kincaid, daughter of the distinguished Duke Kincaid. After an accident with her stepbrother in years past, Sallie becomes an outcast in her small Appalachian Mountains community.
Nine years later, Sallie makes it her mission to regain her position amongst her family, where she quickly is met with thick conflict.
Boo Killebrew, whose credits include Tomorrow Studios-produced series “Physical” for Apple TV+, is set to write the television adaptation.
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