Mark Rylance and Shira Haas have joined the cast of TriStar Pictures' adaptation of Kristin Hannah's bestselling novel The Nightingale. Deadline reported that the project features Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning, marking the first time the sisters have starred in a film together. Edmund Donovan also stars. Sony Pictures plans to release the film theatrically on February 12, 2027.
Michael Morris is directing from a script by Dana Stevens. The movie will be produced by Elizabeth Cantillon for The Cantillon Company, Dakota and Elle Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward for Lewellen Pictures, and Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine.
The Nightingale "tells the story of two sisters during World War II who dare to embark on separate, dangerous paths in the fight for survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France," Deadline noted.