We first heard about plans for a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon last year, and the Village Roadshow Pictures project has now found a director.
According to THR, acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here) has signed on to helm the movie.
King's 1999 novel tells the story of a 9-year-old girl named Trisha McFarland who is separated from her family on a hiking trip. As she becomes increasingly lost in the forest, dehydration causes her to hallucinate and she begins to talk to her idol, a baseball player named Tom Gordon. Unfortunately, she also comes to believe that she's being hunted by a creature known as The God of the Lost.
Is it all in her mind, or are there supernatural forces at work in the woods? Either way, Trish must fight to stay alive and maintain her sanity.
I’m Not Okay With This co-creator Christy Hall wrote the script with Ramsay. Christine Romero is producing along with It producer Roy Lee of Vertigo Films, Ryan Silbert of Origin Story, and Jon Berg through Stampede Ventures.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon has not been given a release date, and there's currently no timeframe for a production start.