The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Movie Updates

Mon., Apr. 20, 2015

from The Wrap

Relativity’s Specialty Division Options 'The Girl Who Fell From the Sky'

Relativity Studios’ specialty division R2 has optioned Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and hired Marissa Jo Cerar to adapt the book and executive produce the film.

• changed the production status to Announced
• added adaptation as a genre
• added Marissa Jo Cerar as screenwriter to credits
• added R2 as a distributor
• added drama as a genre
• added a synopsis

• A young girl named Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African-American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her exotic b... show all eauty brings mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

• created the movie profile