![]() ![]() ![]() Read Lambda Literary‘s interview with Abbott here. “I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I’ve never seen before.” Scoot McNairy is going to break your heart in Andrew Durham's debut feature 'Fairyland,' produced by Sofia Coppola and adapted from Alysia Abbott's 'Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. While the memoir was published in 2013 and the story within it. “I love the book Fairyland it’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970′s San Francisco,” Coppola said. Fairyland is an upcoming film from first-time director Andrew Durham, based on the memoir of the same name by Alysia Abbott. ![]() The book is a coming of age story set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott’s father, Steve Abbott, a widowed poet and gay activist. Basically this is a story of the emergence of a woman from a childhood, including all the selfishness and conflicts of adolescence, into adulthood. Sofia Coppola is Planning ‘Fairyland’ Film Adaptationĭirector Sofia Coppola ( Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father for the screen.Īmerican Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. Fairyland is the memoir of a girl from 4 to 21 being brought up by her gay, widowed father in San Francisco through the 'gay plague' of HIV. ![]()
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