Todd Field (In the Bedroom) is developing Back Roads, based on the best-selling novel by Tawni O'Dell, for DreamWorks Pictures with an eye to possibly direct.
Set in western Pennsylvania's mining country, amid Eat 'n' Parks and Lick 'n' Putts, "Back Roads" follows a teenager whose mother is in jail for killing his abusive father and who's left to care for his three younger sisters. Meanwhile, he has taken an interest in a sexy, melancholic mother of two down the road.
Writers Paul Todisco and Ethan Gross, who both worked on Guy Ritchie's upcoming Revolver, will adapt the screenplay.
Field is currently at work on Time Between Trains, which centers on 19th century tragedian Edwin Booth.
Monday, August 3, 2009
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