Sony Buys Movie Rights to Novel The Great Alone

Sony buys movie rights to novel The Great Alone

Sony Pictures has bought the movie rights to the upcoming novel The Great Alone, award-winning author Kristin Hannah‘s followup to her New York Times bestselling book The Nightingale.

The Great Alone tells the story of a former Vietnam War POW who takes his family to live in Alaska, away from technology and closer to peace and quiet. Fresh from the traumas of the 1974 conflict, the protagonist seeks to reclaim a semblance of normalcy and dignity out in the woods with his loved ones, only to face a harsh, unforgiving winter that threatens to tear him and his family apart from the inside and out. The book is set to be released tomorrow, Tuesday, by St. Martin’s Press, as Kristin Hannah starts her national book tour.

It carries a thematic link to The Nightingale, which portrays the horrors of World War II through the lens of two sisters in France that come of age during the Nazi occupation. Its film adaptation is already underway, with Emmy Award-winning director Michelle MacLaren signed in 2016 to helm the movie.

According to the Variety report, The Great Alone will be produced by Elizabeth Cantillon of the Cantillon Company and Laura Quicksilver, continuing their producing partnership with Hannah on The Nightingale. TriStar Pictures will be developing the movie, with Nicole Brown representing the studio.

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