Actress and screen-writer Greta Gerwig is rewriting Sarah Polley’s script for the forthcoming adaptation of Little Women.
According to the Tracking Board, the actor will take over duties from Sarah Polley. Polley is writer and director of the films Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell. With her partner Noah Baumbach, Gerwig co-wrote the films Frances Ha and Mistress America, both of which were directed by Baumbach, with Gerwig in starring roles.
Sony's Little Women venture is the seventh version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 19th-century novel. The last version, which appeared in 1994 featured Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon in the story of four sisters growing up in post-civil war era Massachusetts.
Gerwig recently starred in the romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan and will also star in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie with co-star Natalie Portman, and in 20th Century Women with Annette Bening and Elle Fanning. She is also writing and directing Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan.
Meanwhile, Polley is kept busy adapting Looking for Alaska, which is based on a book by author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars). She is also working on the small screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s crime novel Alias Grace.
