Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women has been adapted many times through the years, though the most recent take on the tale arrived in 1994, so of course someone wants to bring it back to our screens. Sony has been in development on another version since 2013, and now the studio has Sarah Polley aboard to take over script duties.
Until recently, Olivia Milch had been working on the new adaptation of the story of the March family: a household of four sisters and their mother ("Marmee"), with Father March away being a chaplain in the American War of Independence. The story takes in the girls' governessing, learning the piano, ice skating, having snowball fights, catching scarlet fever and getting married. Jo is the cool one, Meg is the mumsy one, Beth is the quiet one and Amy is the young one. The saga continued in Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys.
Though Polley has established her credentials as a writer director with the likes of Away From Her, **Take This Waltz **and Stories We Tell, she’s currently only engaged to work on the script, though we imagine Sony will offer her the director’s chair if she’s so inclined, should the screenplay land well with everyone involved. Amy Pascal, who recently left her job as boss at the studio, is on board to produce alongside Robin Swicord and Denise Di Novi.