STXfilms has acquired the North American distribution rights to Studiocanal/Heyday Films' The Secret Garden, based on the classic children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Deadline reported. Directed by Marc Munden, the project stars Colin Firth, Julie Walters and Dixie Egerickx. Jack Thorne wrote the screenplay. The film is set "in a new time period in 1947 England, on the eve of Partition in India, and in the aftermath of World War 2 in Britain."
