Deadline reports that Participant Media has acquired the feature film rights to S-Town, the This American Life podcast spin-off.
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight, The Cobbler) is currently in negotiations to direct the film with Samuel Hunter (The Healing) in talks to pen the script.
S-Town began as an investigative journalism podcast from Serial and This American Life, hosted by Brian Reed.
He despised his Alabama town and reached out to Reed and the people at This American Life to have them investigate a potential murder that took place there.