Millie Bobby Brown has joined Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu on her adaptation of Ali Benjamin’s 2015 young adult novel The Thing About Jellyfish, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The book focuses on a young seventh grader named Suzy, who loses her best friend via a drowning accident.
Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane of MWM Studios, Bruna Papandrea, and Reese Witherspoon will produce for Universal.
When Suzy becomes convinced her friend died because of a rare jellyfish thing she sets out on a globe-trotting quest to prove her theory correct.