Shucked Film in the Works as Show Closes on Broadway
(© Matthew Murphy)
On the heels of closing at the Nederlander Theatre, the Broadway musical Shucked is in the process of being adapted for the big screen. The news was announced during the curtain call of the show’s final performance on January 14.
Book writer Robert Horn is expected to pen the screenplay. Mandalay Pictures, whose films include Air, The Kids Are All Right, Donnie Brasco, and I Know What You Did Last Summer, are behind the film.
With a book by Horn, score by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and direction by Jack O’Brien, the piece opened on Broadway last March following a tryout in Utah. Set in a rural community isolated from the world by a wall of economy-driving corn stalks, Shucked follows what happens when the crop begins to fail, and a young woman leaves behind Cob County to try and find someone who can save her town. We described the show as “a shucking good time.”
Casting, dates and more details about the film are to be revealed in the coming years.
