"The Scottish film-maker Lynne Ramsay will write and direct the film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel set in the aftermath of a high school massacre. BBC Films is producing the project, expected to cost around $6m.
Shriver told the Guardian that Ramsay is working on the script with Rob Festinger, screenwriter on the award-winning In the Bedroom, which starred Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei. The author herself is keeping well away from the adaptation process. 'I've had it up to my eyeballs with that book,' she says. 'Not that I'm complaining, but I feel that I did my job. I need somebody else to come in and inject a freshness. They've been very nice about promising me some sort of consultative role, but I know better than to take that seriously. It's sweet of them even to offer.'"
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