Sisters Elle and Dakota Fanning will be seen together for the first time playing sisters for the film adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s 2015 novel The Nightingale for TriStar Pictures.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project will be directed by Melania Laurent with a screenplay written by Dana Stevens and produced by Elizabeth Cantillon under her banner Cantillon Company.
The Nightingale, which proved to be a bestseller, tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive in the German occupation of France. It was inspired by several true accounts of courageous women of the French Resistance.
“The Nightingale will be the first time we act on screen together. We have played the same character at different ages but have never spoken to each other in front of a camera. For years, we have looked for a film to do with one another and then this gem appeared,” the Fanning sisters said in a joint statement.
Elle Fanning was last seen in Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, directed by Joachim Rønning. She will be next seen playing the titular role in Sally Potter’s Molly and in the Netflix film All the Bright Places.
Dakota Fanning was recently seen playing the Manson girl Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and will next be seen in the TNT series Angel of Darkness.