Lena Dunham has been tapped to adapt a Syrian refugee survival story. The “Girls” creator and star will take “A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival” to the big screen for Paramount Pictures, Variety confirms. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners are producing.
Published in 2017, Melissa Fleming’s nonfiction book “documents the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, a mother of two fleeing Egypt for Sweden by boat. Shipwrecked along the way, Al Zamel survived for days in open water holding her two small children in each arm with only the support of an inflatable water ring,” the source summarizes.
Dunham is penning the screenplay. No word on who will direct. Dunham most recently co-created Jennifer Garner-starrer “Camping,” airing on HBO now. The eight-episode comedy series follows a control freak determined to host the perfect camping weekend with family and friends to celebrate her husband’s 45th birthday.
A Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee, Dunham launched her career with SXSW and Indie Spirit Award winner “Tiny Furniture,” a 2010 comedy she wrote, directed, and starred in. She recently said that she writes “about complicated women who have complicated experiences. That’s what is interesting to me and so I’m working through those ideas in some new iterations,” she hinted.
