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Karen Moncrieff to Write and Direct Adaptation of Alice Sebold Memoir “Lucky”

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Another Alice Sebold adaptation is in the works. Ten years after Saoirse Ronan-starrer “The Lovely Bones” hit theaters comes word that Sebold’s award-winning memoir “Lucky” is coming to the big screen with Karen Moncrieff (“13 Reasons Why,” “The Dead Girl”) writing and directing. A press release announced the news.

Released in 1999, “Lucky” sees Sebold revisiting how her life was transformed when she was raped and beaten in a park near campus as an 18-year-old college freshman. The title refers to her experience reporting the crime to the police — an officer told her that a woman had recently been murdered in the same location, so she was “lucky” to have survived.

“I’m excited to tell this unflinching, true story of a fierce rape survivor and her battle to become the person and writer she always intended to be,” said Moncrieff. “Alice’s courage, wit, and willingness to remake her shocking personal trauma into moving and redemptive art are incredibly inspiring to me.”

Skywolf Media’s Lisa Wolofsky and Fortitude’s Nadine de Barros are financing the feature and will serve as exec producers. Casting is underway, and filming is expected to kick off this fall.

Sebold’s debut novel, 2002’s “The Lovely Bones,” tells the story of a teenage girl who is raped and murdered. She watches from heaven as her loved ones try to move on in her absence — and uncover the identity of her murderer. The Ronan-led film adaptation of the book was released in 2009.

“I’m interested in the things that separate us, and so the experience of violence or anything that’s taboo in its way is something that separates us. The reality is that so many of us, especially in this day and age, are having these experiences that the culture hasn’t yet caught up with in terms of making room for,” Sebold said in 2015. “I think I’m fascinated with understanding pain. And so ultimately when you’re in that pursuit, you find all the nuances of it. And one of them may indeed be beauty.”


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