Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to Heath Lee’s upcoming non-fiction book The League of Wives, which is the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home from Vietnam, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Lee’s The League of Wives book will be published in April 2019 by St. Martin’s Press.
Reese Witherspoon will produce the adaptation via her Hello Sunshine banner.
“At Hello Sunshine, we strive to showcase brave, brilliant female characters, and the women of League of Wives are all of that and more,” said Witherspoon, who will produce with Hello Sunshine exec Lauren Levy Neustadter.