Sony Pictures In Talks for "Little House on the Prairie" Feature Film

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Sony Pictures In Talks For Little House on the Prairie Feature
by MIKE FLEMING
Monday October 1, 2012


EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is in negotiations to turn Little House on the Prairie into a feature film that David Gordon Green will direct with Abi Morgan writing the script. Scott Rudin will produce with Trip Friendly.

The deal hasn’t happened yet, but they are working toward giving the pioneer family a big screen incarnation.



Little House on the Prairie is based on the semi-autobiographical classic children’s book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder written between 1932 and 1943 about farm life in the late 19th Century American West.

The books formed the basis for a TV series that ran from 1974-1983 and starred Michael Landon, and Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls Wilder.



Morgan, repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group, last scripted the Steve McQueen-directed Michael Fassbender-starrer Shame, and the Phyllida Lloyd-directed The Iron Lady, which starred Meryl Streep.

As for Green, he’s been focusing on comedies with Pineapple Express, The Sitter, Your Highness and "Eastbound & Down", and is repped by CAA and Gotham Group.

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