News

Nick Hornby and Reese Witherspoon Go Wild

November 29, 2012


Nick Hornby, the bestselling author of books like High Fidelity and About a Boy, has signed on to adapt Cheryl Strayed book, Wild, for the big screen. Deadline reports that Reese Witherspoon will produce through her Pacific Standard and will likely star as well.

The book, released earlier this year, is officially described as follows:

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mother's death, with nothing more to lose, Strayed made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker--indeed, she'd never gone backpacking before her first night on the trail. Her trek was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and intense loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Along with Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Bill Pohlad are aboard as producers.

You can check out a trailer for the book version in the player below:



| 1 comment | Add a comment

comments powered by Disqus
Latest Headlines:

Joss Whedon Talks Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in The Avengers 2
Indy 500 Featurette and Character Posters for Turbo
5 New Posters for The Lone Ranger Online
Charlie Sheen Changes Name for Machete Kills
Go Behind the Scenes of White House Down
Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive
Watch the New Carl's Jr./Hardee's Man of Steel Commercial
The Domestic Trailer for Walking With Dinosaurs: The Movie
The Trailer for Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Starring Affleck, Mara and Foster
Play as Superman in Man of Steel Browser-Based Game
New Motion Poster for Carrie Revealed
New Character Images for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photo Teases Destruction
Interview: Sung Kang on Fast & Furious 6 and Han's Final Fate
Tom Cruise Will No Longer Be The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Entertainment One Acquires U.S. Distribution for Diana
Man of Steel Producer Talks Characters, Costumes and Training
The Star Wars News Roundup - 5.24.13

Follow ComingSoon.net on Twitter
MOST ACTIVE
MORE MOVIE & GAMING NEWS