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Lena Dunham is set to adapt Karen Cushman’s YA period novel “Catherine: Called Birdy” for the screen.
Dunham announced her plans to bring the story to the cinema at the New Yorker Festival on Friday night, where she said she hopes to direct the adaptation also.
The book, somewhat of a coming of age story, follows a 12 year old as she tries to scare off potential suitors.
“[She] gets her period and her father basically says, ‘Well, it’s time for you to get married,’ and she’s like, ‘Uh, no,’” Dunham told New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy and the audience. “But it’s hyper realistic and really pretty and it’s full of incest and beatings, but it’s a child’s story. I’ve been obsessed with it since I was a kid.”
Dunham will develop the film with “Girls” exec producer Jenni Konner via their A Casual Romance production company.
