Overview

• Lulu Wang will direct the feature and co-write the screenplay with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok.
• Lucy Liu and Charles Melton are attached to star, with Liu also serving as an executive producer.
• Higher Ground and Laika are producing in association with Wang’s Local Time, with producers Vinnie Malhotra, Anikah McLaren, Travis Knight, Matt Levin, and Wang.
• Executive producers include Lucy Liu, Laika’s Jeremy Kipp Walker, and author Katie Kitamura.
• The project is in development with no distributor or release timing announced, following Barack Obama’s 2025 summer reading nod that helped elevate the novel’s profile.