Having completed Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, Jason Reitman is already thinking about future projects, with Variety reporting that he has signed up to direct The Possibilities. The movie will be an adaption of Kaui Hart Hemmings’ upcoming novel. Hemmings previously had book-to-film success with The Descendants.
The official plot description of the book says, ‘In this highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of The Descendants, a grieving mother struggles to overcome her son’s death, when a strange girl enters her life with a secret that changes them both forever.
‘Sarah St. John, a single mother, is reeling from grief: Three months ago, her twenty-one-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche near their home in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.
‘As Sarah tries her best to go through the stages-the anger, the sadness, the letting go-she has trouble keeping her grief at bay and moving on with life. Her father, a retiree who has become addicted to QVC, urges Sarah to go back to work at Breckenridge’s local morning show. Her best friend, a recent divorcee who always manages to say the wrong things, convinces Sarah to sort through Cully’s belongings. Slowly, she comes to terms with a world without the swish of her son’s ski pants or the rolling of his skateboard outside her window. Then a girl named Kit appears on Sarah’s doorstep-and she’s carrying Cully’s child.’
It isn’t known if Jason Reitman is also writing the screenplay, although there’s a good chance that he wil. There isn’t any info on when it might shoot either.
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