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Reese Witherspoon has become known for her book-to-screen adaptations, after having massive success developing Big Little Lies, Gone Girl and Wild.
Now Witherspoon’s next project via her production company Hello Sunshine has been confirmed: adapting Celeste Ng’s hit novel Little Fires Everywhere for the small screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress-turned-producer bought the television rights to Ng’s novel, and this week signed a contract with ABC Signature Studios to produce a TV series based on the book.
It’ll star Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, making it the latter’s first television role since Olivia Pope in Scandal.
Little Fires Everywhere is set in a wealthy Ohio suburb, and focuses on a mysterious arson incident and the adoption of a Chinese-American baby by a white couple who fight the birth mother for custody.
There’s a frenzy in Hollywood to buy up the screen rights for hit books; the TV adaptation of Stephanie Danler’s 2016 novel Sweetbitter premieres in May.
