French-American actress and filmmaker Anna Chazelle (Narrow, La La Land) is attached to direct The Trespassers, the feature adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel that was written in 1958 but was not published after the author’s death in 2013, according to Deadline.
The Trespassers will be produced by Leonard’s granddaughter Megan Freels Johnston through her Look At Me Films company, along with Nick Terry at Zero Gravity Management.
Chazelle will serve as the first woman director to helm a movie adaptation of Leonard’s work.
The story, adapted for the screen by Troy Blake, is told from the point of view of a young wife who becomes increasingly frustrated with her mild-mannered husband.