Catherine Hardwicke, the director previously responsible for adapting Twilight and the Red Riding Hood fairytale for cinema audiences, appears to have taken a hiatus from supernatural teen romances; with the news that she is to adapt Martha O’Connor’s 2006 “The Bitch Posse” demonstrating a greater grounding in reality.
The novel, which follows a trio of high school friends into adulthood, jumping as it does between two different timelines, chronicles the breakdown of friendship that leaves one character in a mental institution, another a promiscuous writer and the third navigating a loveless marriage.
With a script by Tristine Skyler, and entering production under Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler’s Ambush Entertainment (Super) banner, The Bitch Posse certainly boasts enough angst to keep the Lords of Dogtown director busy.
Deadline had this one first.
