Sobieski plays a teen taken in by a Malibu couple after her parents die in a car accident. She realizes soon after that her caretakers aren't who they seemed to be and may even be behind the financially motivated murder of her mother and father. Lane will play the woman, while casting is still under way for the father figure. The book chronicled Wurtzel's personal history of struggling with depression even as she grew up in New York, attended Harvard and went on to become a bright light on the journalism circuit. Her depression became so bad that she once tried to commit suicide before finding hope in the title drug.
Variety reports that the film is the troubled woman's coming of age story.
Shooting starts May 15. The occasion forces them to confront the truth of what happened during combat. According to THR, production is scheduled to begin April 3. According to Variety, Fox has a script by Larry Levin, who wrote the original. He's now working on a second draft.