Ellen Page To Go ‘Into The Forest’

With big roles in THE EDGE and TOUCHY FEELY hitting Sundance late January, we have it fresh from Variety that JUNO and INCEPTION leading lady Ellen Page has been snatched up for INTO THE FOREST, a film adaptation project of the bestseller by Jean Hegland.  The story revolves around two sisters in their teens who are residing together in remote Northern California woodland, far out of reach of society when the World suddenly goes to pot: “There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found.”  Existential crisis comes in waves to the two girls as they desperately cling to the hope that somehow things will fall back into place as their condition worsens. The synopsis for the novel is as follows:

Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them.  No single event precedes society’s fall.  There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found.  The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return.  Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.

Source: Collider