Sofia Coppola is Planning ‘Fairyland’ Film Adaptation

Author: Edit Team

December 16, 2013

Director Sofia Coppola (Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father for the screen.

Deadline reports:

American Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. She will produce with Roman Coppola. The memoir was published by W. W. Norton & Co  last June. The book is a coming of age story set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott’s father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist.

“I love the book Fairyland; it’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970′s San Francisco,” Coppola said. “I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I’ve never seen before.”

Read Lambda Literary‘s interview with Abbott here.