Those mourning the recent path former Indie director
Catherine Hardwicke's career has ventured down lately (she sold out and made the first
Twilight movie, then the particularly awful
Red Riding Hood) should get ready to let out a sigh of relief at news of her last attachment.
Deadline reported on Friday that Hardwicke is to direct
The Bitch Posse, an adaptation of a book by
Martha O'Connor that centers;
"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".
Finally, a return to a more adult themed subject matter for the former
Thirteen and
Lords of Dogtown helmer.
Tristine Skyler, writer of the forever in production adaptation of Sylvia Plath's
The Bell Jar and an adaptation of the vamp novel
Innocent has wrote the screenplay. Sadly, it's not yet clear if The Bitch Posse will be Hardwicke's next movie to film. She is also attached for the teenage blockbuster
The Maze Runner, based on
James Dashners bestselling 2009 novel, the first of a trilogy that Fox hope to translate into a successful young adult film series.
Noah Oppenheim was brought in to write the screenplay in January but there has been no movement on the project since.