Amy Adams to Play a Scientist and Ecologist in Adaptation FINDING THE MOTHER TREE

In a competitive bidding war, Amy Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories have won the rights to adapt and produce Suzanne Simard’s recently published memoir, Finding the Mother Tree.

Adams will star as Simard, “a world renowned scientist and ecologist who first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi.” Simard’s work has been praised as having “planetary significance” and forever changing the way we look at trees. It has inspired authors and filmmakers alike, from the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar to the main character in Richard Powers’ novel Overstory.

“In Finding the Mother Tree, Simard writes of her own unique journey as a mother, a former logger, and an iconoclastic scientist and reveals how trees, living side-by-side for hundreds of years, evolve and communicate. At the center of it all are Mother Trees: mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain all the life that surrounds them. While her revolutionary findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by research and data.”

This is a fascinating research and story, and it sounds like a perfect project for Adams and Gyllenhaal to take on.