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WONDER
Julia Roberts is set to play Jacob Tremblay’s mother in Lionsgate’s adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s coming-of-age-novel Wonder. The story follows Auggie Pullman, a young boy with a facial deformity that is bullied at school.
Room star Jacob Tremblay is circling a role in Wonder at Lionsgate. The film is an adaptation of the coming-of-age-novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio.
The “Kill Your Darlings” helmer has signed on to direct the YA adaptation.
Lionsgate finds its writer for adaptation.
Scribe in talks to pen adaptation.
Logline: A boy with facial deformities encounters bullying when he goes to public school for the first time in fifth grade.