It has been announced that Ron Howard will be directing and producing a film adaptation of J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
“Hillbilly Elegy is a powerful, true coming-of-age memoir by JD Vance,” Huggins said of the story.
The coming-of-age story follows Vance’s struggles growing up surrounded by ‘hillbilly culture’ in the Rust Belt of the American Midwest.
Ron Howard originally rose to fame in the 70s for his role as Richie Cunningham in US sitcom Happy Days, after which he turned to directing.
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