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Last modified: Jul. 4, 2023

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The Nightingale

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Director: Melanie Laurent

Starring: Dakota Fanning • Elle Fanning

R Drama N/A

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Production Status

Current stage in the film’s journey

Pre-Production
Production Progress
Key talent and film crew being hired; budgeting, preparing and planning of production schedule; approving final shooting script

January 15, 2023

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot
Two sisters live in France at the beginning of World War II. The older sister, Vianne Mauriac, says goodbye to her husband, who's heading off to fight in the war. She and her daughter become prisoners in their own home after it's requisitioned by German forces, and Vianne is faced with making impossible choices to save her family. Her younger sister, Isabelle, is an 18-year-old girl who falls for a young man who eventually betrays her. She then joins the Resistance and begins risking her life to save others.
Cited as modified plot formulation from hollywoodreporter.com
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Top Cast

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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Melanie Laurent last directed Freedom / Libre and Freedom. The film's writer Dana Stevens last wrote The Woman King and Fatherhood.

Director
Melanie Laurent
Screenwriter
Producer
Elizabeth Cantillon
Studio
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Production Details

What we know about the The Nightingale movie production.

Key Facts

  • Based on novel by Kristin Hannah.

Production Updates for The Nightingale

Pre-Production

Changed The Nightingale movie production status. Preparations are underway to start production.

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Film has not yet been shot. Delayed due to coronavirus pandemic. Release date delayed to 2021.

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Preparations are underway to start production.

Development

Changed the movie production status to Development. Ann Peacock (Chronicle Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe) is on-board to write the script.

Announced

Changed the movie production status to Announced. TriStar Pictures has preemptively optioned the hot best-selling novel The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.

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Additional Information

Parent Rating
R Restricted for strong violent and disturbing content including rape, language throughout, and brief sexuality
Runtime
N/A
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Language
English

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Release Dates

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The Nightingale is coming out to nationwide movie theaters on To Be Announced (TBA) There are 9,453 other movies coming out on the same date, including Blade, The Rosie Project and Madagascar 4.

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  • 2023-02-00 DVD

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Is this the movie based on Kristin Hannah’s book, “The Nightingale?” Dec. 27, 2019
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Tue., Jul. 4, 2023

  • Changed the US film release date from December 23, 2022 to TBA

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  • Set film release to Nationwide

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