Reese Witherspoon is bringing another project based on a bestselling book to a screen near you. The “Gone Girl” and “Wild” producer, who also counts small screen titles such as “Big Little Lies” and “Little Fires Everywhere” among her exec producing credits, is behind the film adaptation of Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing,” set to hit theaters July 15. A trailer for the thriller just dropped.
“Every creature does what it must to survive,” says Daisy Edgar-Jones in the spot. The “Normal People” breakout, last seen in Mimi Cave’s “Fresh,” plays Kia, a young woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South after being abandoned by her family. Known as “the Marsh girl,” we’re told that she’s “reviled and shunned” by her community. “Sometimes I feel so invisible. I wonder if I’m here at all,” she admits.
Kia finds herself at the center of attention when she becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was romantically involved with. “Being isolated was one thing. Being hunted quite another,” she observes.
Olivia Newman directed “Where the Crawdads Sing.” She made her feature directorial debut with 2018’s “First Match,” and has gone on to helm episodes of “Chicago Fire” and “Dare Me,” among other series. Lucy Alibar, whose credits include “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Troop Zero,” penned its script.
