David Friendly, Mark Clayman and Michael Menchel will produce a film based based on Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by rape victim Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, the man she mistakenly identified as her attacker, Variety reported.
Todd Komarnicki, who is writing the adaptation, said, "What they've done is incredibly inspirational in terms of showing how powerful forgiveness is. It makes me examine how I live my own life."
Friendly told Variety he decided to option the book after watching Cotton and Thompson-Cannino on CBS's 60 Minutes. "I burst into tears while watching it, which is usually a pretty good sign that something's a viable property," he said.