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Ron Howard adapting Hillbilly Elegy

April 11, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that Imagine Entertainment has won a bidding contest for the rights to J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, setting Ron Howard to direct an adaptation, as well as producing with Imagine partner Brian Grazer.

Hillbilly Elegy describes Vance’s poor upbringing in the Rust Belt, where he grew up among working-class “hillbillies” and encountered numerous struggles such as drug addiction, and social and economic hardship. He would later enlist in the military, serving in Iraq, before graduating from Ohio State University and Yale Law School and becoming a successful venture capitalist.

“Hillbilly Elegy is a powerful, true coming-of-age memoir by J.D. Vance,” said Erica Huggins of Imagine. “Through the lens of a colorful, chaotic family and with remarkable compassion and self-awareness, J.D. has been able to look back on his own upbringing as a ‘hillbilly’ to illuminate the plight of America’s white working class, speaking directly to the turmoil of our current political climate.”

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Hillbilly Elegy, Ron Howard

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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