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EXCLUSIVE: Albrecht Schuch, Douglas Hodge, Gwilym Lee, and Vinette Robinson person joined nan formed of TriStar Pictures’ The Nightingale, starring Dakota and Elle Fanning, marking nan first clip nan acclaimed sisters prima successful a movie together. The movie besides stars Mark Rylance, Shira Haas and rising prima Edmund Donovan.
Michael Morris will nonstop nan movie from a book by award-winning screenwriter Dana Stevens. The task is produced by Elizabeth Cantillon for The Cantillon Company, Dakota and Elle Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward for Lewellen Pictures and Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine. Sony Pictures is releasing nan movie theatrically connected February 12, 2027.
The Nightingale tells nan powerful communicative of 2 sisters during WWII who situation to embark connected separate, vulnerable paths successful nan conflict for survival, love, and state successful German-occupied, war-torn France.
A world phenomenon, Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale has sold complete 11 cardinal copies worldwide and been translated into 45 languages. Since debuting successful 2015, nan caller has go a taste touchstone, hitting #1 connected nan New York Times Best Sellers database and spending a mixed 165 weeks connected nan NYT Best Sellers database crossed formats. It besides dominated NPR’s fabrication floor plan for 45 weeks and was named a Reese’s Book Club Pick successful March 2023. In March 2025, a typical 10th Anniversary Edition soared to #2 connected nan NYT hardcover list. The Nightingale has sold an astounding 1 cardinal copies truthful acold this year, reaffirming nan novel’s enduring powerfulness and continued resonance pinch readers astir nan world.
Nicole Brown and Shary Shirazi are overseeing for TriStar Pictures.
Schuch is an award-winning German character whose credits see Edward Berger’s All Quiet connected nan Western Front for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award, and German film’s System Crasher and Peacock. He is repped by UTA, B-Side Management, and Agentur Lambsdorff.
Hodge is an award-winning character whose credits see Todd Phillips’ Joker, We Live successful Time, and astir precocious nan critically acclaimed Pillion. He is repped by Innovative Artists and United Agents.
Lee’s credits include Bohemian Rhapsody and nan Golden Globe nominated The Great for which he co-starred other Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. He is repped by B-Side Management and Gersh Agency.
Robinson received a British Independent Film Award for Boiling Point. Most recently she starred in Othello at nan Theatre Royal Haymarket successful London. She is repped by Curtis Brown Group.
