Catherine Hardwicke directing adaptation of THE BITCH POSSE

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Catherine Hardwicke is set to direct an adaptation of The Bitch Posse, with a script adapted by Tristine Skyler based on the Martha O'Connor novel. Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler are producing under their Ambush Entertainment banner. They most recently produced and financed IFC's Super directed by James Gunn. In addition, Virginia Madsen and Karly Meola are producing via their Title IX production company, after optioning the book. 

Hardwicke directed the first Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, and most recently Red Riding Hood. All of those film's have teen angst as a shared theme to an extent, as does this story. The book focuses on "three friends, Cherry, Amy and Rennie, high school seniors who come from troubled homes and form a dangerous alliance called the Bitch Posse. Something occurs that rips apart the friendship and haunts them into adulthood. The book switches back and forth from those high school years to their adult lives where one is in a mental institution, the other is a promiscuous writer and the third suffers through a loveless marriage."

I really liked Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen and am not ashamed to admit that I am a fan of The Twilight Saga. Dogtown did a great job of tellinng a cool story with multiple characters over an extended period of time, and I think that Bitch Posse will play on Hardwicke's strengths in that area.

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