Sony, Amy Pascal to Do Another "Little Women" Big-Screen Adaptation, Sarah Polley Also on Board as Scriptwriter
Sony is planning another film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 two-volume novel about the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, in post-Civil War America. Once it pushes through, it will be the sixth feature film adaptation of the classic story following the 1994 film version by Gillian Armstrong, the 1978 TV movie by Gordon Hessler, the 1949 adaptation by Mervyn LeRoy, the 1933 version by George Cukor, and the two silent films that have been released in 1917 and 1918.
Amy Pascal has come on board to produce the Little Women reboot movie for Sony Pictures. She will be working alongside Denise Di Novi and Robin Swicord for the project. Di Novi was the producer of the 1994 version, with Swicord writing the screenplay for that movie, which then starred Winona Rider, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes and Trini Alvardo as the March sisters.
Pascal, since stepping down as head, has continued to handle some of Sony's top franchises, including Spider-Man, Ghostbusters and Barbie. She also continues to oversee projects in development like Girls Like Us, a chronicle of the rise of folk singers Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, and now, the new Little Women reboot movie.
Sarah Polley, 36, has been hired to write a new screenplay based on the famous Alcott classic. Polley, a winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association award for best Canadian film of the year for her documentary Stories We Tell, also directed and wrote critically acclaimed Take This Waltz (2011) and Away from Her (2006). To her fans, she is better known as an actress, having starred in such cult-favorites as Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Life Without Me, Dawn of the Dead, Splice, and Mr. Nobody.