class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-54365″ title=”Foxfire” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2010/11/Foxfire-196×300.jpg” alt=”” width=”196″ height=”300″ />Laurent Cantet (The Class) will make his English-language directorial debut with an adaptation of the feminist novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates.
Foxfire follows the story of a group of headstrong, adolescent girls who grow up amidst violence and frustration in 1950’s upstate New York and go onto form the titular Firefox gang; a female-only society recognized by the flame tattooed on the back of member’s shoulders.
Cantet’s version will be the second screen adaptation. The first, starring Angelina Jolie and Jenny Lewis, was released back in 1996.
Filming is expected to take place in Canada from Spring 2011.
Memento International Films will produce.
ThePlaylist reported this one.
