After a fierce bidding war, Netflix has snagged the much-anticipated film adaptation ofHillbilly Elegy.
Ron Howard will direct while Vanessa Taylor co-writer ofThe Shape of Water will adapt the screenplay.
Imagine Entertainment secured the movie rights to the J.D.
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Vances memoir in 2017.
Netflix is expected to fully finance the project, which could reportedly ring in at $45 million.
Deadline Hollywoodfirst reportedthe news.
Hillbilly Elegyis a best-seller about growing up poor in the Rust Belt.
He eventually became a venture capitalist and, of course, a successful author.
