Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo have signed on to The Secret Life of Bees, based on the Sue Monk Kidd novel. Dakota Fanning is in negotiations to star as the 14-year-old girl who flees her home and is taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters.
Variety says Alicia Keys is also in negotiations to join the film, helmed by Love & Basketball director Gina Prince-Bythewood from a screenplay she wrote.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, the story centers on Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (Hudson) to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Latifah, Okonedo and Keys would play the three sisters.
I am only posting this because at one point David Gordon Green was set to direct and write this. I'm not sure how far along he got in the production or if he actually ever wrote a script. If he did I wonder if any of his work will make it to the final product.
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