Anne Hathaway Will Reprise Stage Role in Film Adaptation of George Brant's GROUNDED

Following an extended run and rave reviews at The Public Theater in 2015, Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway will now bring George Brant's war drama GROUNDED to the big screen, Variety reports.

Hathaway is set to reprise her stage role in the film, which Brant will adapt. The actress will also produce alongside Entertainment 360 and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, who is also financing. A director has yet to be named.

Directed by Julie Taymor Off-Broadway at The Public, the play follows an ace fighter pilot reassigned to a remote-controlled drone faces 12-hour shifts hunting targets from her Air Force trailer followed by 12 hours in the suburbs with her family in this award-winning new play about the complicated consequences of waging war without leaving home.

Hathaway nabbed a Critics Circle nomination for her performance. In the UK, GROUNDED was named one of the Best Plays of the year by both London's The Evening Standard and The Guardian, and winner of the Smith Prize for Political Theater.

Hathaway's theatrical credits include The Public's free Shakespeare in the Park's 2009 production of Twelfth Night (Drama Desk nomination) and Carnival at City Center Encores! (Clarence Derwent Award). Hathaway studied at The Barrow Group, NYU's Collaborative Arts Projects "CAP 21" and at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.

Hathaway recently starred in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar alongside Matthew McConaughey,Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine. Other film credits include Song One, Tom Hooper's Les Miserables (Academy, BAFTA, SAG and Golden Globe Awards), Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, One Day, Rio 1&2, Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs (Golden Globe nomination), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married (Academy Award, SAG, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award nominations, NBR Best Actress); Get Smart; Becoming Jane; The Devil Wears Prada opposite Meryl Streep; Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (SAG nomination Best Ensemble) and Garry Marshall's beloved The Princess Diaries alongside Julie Andrews. Television credits include voice work on "The Simpsons" (Emmy Award) and "Family Guy," and on the FOX series "Get Real" with Jesse Eisenberg. She recently starred opposite Robert DeNiro in Nancy Meyers' The Intern, and later this year, will appear in Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass.

Photos by Joan Marcus

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