Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin
(Little Miss Sunshine) will star as Kit Kittredge in the
first theatrical adaptation from the American Girl series,
as an HBO Films production to be released by Picturehouse,
it was announced today by Bob Berney, president of
Picturehouse and Colin Callender, president, HBO Films.
Produced by HBO Films, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Marisa
Yeres, from Goldsmith-Thomas Productions, in association
with Julia Roberts and Lisa Gillan from Red Om Films, and
Ellen L. Brothers of American Girl, Inc., the film is
written by Ann Peacock (A Lesson Before Dying, The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)
and tells the story of the clever and resourceful Kit
Kittredge, a nine-year-old girl growing up in 1934 during
America’s Great Depression. Shooting will begin this summer.
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