American Zoetrope has acquired the motion picture rights for Alysia Abbott’s critically acclaimed memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father (W. W. Norton & Company). Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation, The Bling Ring) and Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom) will produce the film. Ms. Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay. Mr. Durham is a photographer who collaborates regularly with Ms. Coppola.
Praised by Alexandra Styron in The New York Times as “a daughter's compassionate, clear-eyed reckoning with the truths that defined her singular girlhood,” Fairyland is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of 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 More