A movie adaptation of Rebecca Yarros‘ best-selling ballerina novel “Variation” is within the works at Amazon MGM Studios, Selection has confirmed.
“It Ends With Us” screenwriter Christy Corridor is penning the script for the film and President Barack and Michelle Obama’s Greater Floor and American Ballet Theatre vet Misty Copeland, who just lately retired as the corporate’s principal dancer, are producing.
From Yarros (greatest referred to as the creator of the “Fourth Wing” romantasy novel collection, which is in improvement as a TV collection at Amazon), “Variation” follows a famend ballerina who returns to her household’s Cape Cod summer time house to heal from her career-threatening damage, the place she reunites with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she by no means forgot about. As they confront unaddressed emotions from their previous, household secrets and techniques concerning the tragedy that drove them aside are uncovered, they’re pressured to query whether or not they made the unsuitable decisions for the proper causes.
Together with “Variation” and “Fourth Wing,” different Yarros book-to-screen variations presently within the works embrace “Within the Seemingly Occasion” film at Netflix and “The Final Letter” as a movie from Amazon MGM.
“Variation” marks the primary function movie produced by Copeland’s Life in Movement Productions, which was co-founded with Emmy-winning author and producer Leyla Fayyaz with the mission of “amplifying motion storytelling in movie, tv and on stage.” Underneath Copeland, who was named American Ballet Theatre’s first Black feminine principal dancer in 2015, Life in Movement has additionally produced the Emmy-nominated documentary “Raise” and the just lately launched documentary “Match in a Haystack,” in addition to the indie narrative quick, “Flower,” which premiered on the 2023 Tribeca Movie Pageant and was nominated for an NAACP Award.
Greater Floor’s earlier movie credit embrace the Academy Award-winning documentary function “American Manufacturing unit” and the just lately launched Netflix apocalyptic thriller “Depart the World Behind,” in addition to “Rustin,” “American Symphony,” “Crip Camp,” “Fatherhood,” “Turning into” and “Price.”
Information of the “Variation” movie mission was first reported by The Washington Publish.
