Mamma Mia! director Ol Parker is teaming with Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — to adapt and direct the book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, by author Jon Mooallem.
Concordia acquired the rights to develop and produce the feature film adaptation of the book that dramatizes the impact of a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska on March 27, 1964.
The book centers on Genie Chance, a part-time radio reporter who played a crucial role after the earthquake disaster in helping save a fractured frontier town from descending into chaos.
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