Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal Team Up for True-Story Movie Finding the Mother Tree
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The American Hustle actress and the Brokeback Mountain actor are joining forces to develop a new feature film about real-life scientist Suzanne Simard. May 6, 2021
Jake Gyllenhaal to turn the new memoir of world-famous scientist and ecologist
Suzanne Simard into a movie.
American Hustle star Adams will also take on the lead role as Simard in
Finding the Mother Tree , which the actress will produce for her Bond Group Entertainment company, alongside Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker for his Nine Stories firm.
In the book, published on Tuesday (04May21), Simard shares her story as a former logger and enthusiastic scientist, who first discovered how trees evolved over the years to communicate underground through a complex web of fungi.
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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal have won the rights to produce a film adaptation of Finding the Mother Tree, with Adams set to star. Adams production company, Bond Group Entertainment, and Gyllenhaal s Nine Stories banner have won the rights to adapt scientist Suzanne Simard s memoir, which was published on Tuesday. The American Hustle actress will play Simard, a world-renowned scientist and ecologist who first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi. Her groundbreaking findings were initially dismissed and ridiculed, but they are now supported by research. Suzanne s novel has been an inspiration. Creatively, it excited us with a narrative about the awe-invoking power of nature and the compelling parallels in Suzanne s personal life, Adams and her production partner Stacy O Neil said in a statement, reports Variety. It forever transformed our views of the world and the interconnectivity of our environment. Finding th
It s not every scientist that can claim to have influenced James Cameron, but Suzanne Simard can. Her memoir,
Finding The Mother Tree, has quickly been snapped up for a film adaptation, with Jake Gyllenhaal producing and Amy Adams starring.
Simard is a world-renowned scientist who discovered how trees communicate underground through a web of fungi, which has forever altered how the world sees trees. And if the idea of a tree communicating sounds cinematically familiar, then perhaps you re thinking of the Tree Of Souls (AKA Vitraya Ramunong) in
Yet Simard s journey to her current position was far from straightforward: while her revolutionary findings about Mother Trees and their links between the life that surrounds were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by research and data.
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Amy Adams is set to star in a movie adaptation of Suzanne Simard s memoir, Finding The Mother Tree .
The 46-year-old star will lead the cast and co-produce the upcoming flick, which will bring the scientist s findings on how fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem to the big screen, with Jake Gyllenhaal.
The idea of Mother Trees communicating was touched on in James Cameron s Avatar and its Tree of Souls.
As well as documenting Simard s impactful life , Adams says the film is a call to action to protect, understand and connect with the natural world .
Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment will produce with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories
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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal have together acquired the rights to the memoir “Finding the Mother Tree” by scientist Suzanne Simard, and Adams will also star in the film adaptation.
Adams’ production company Bond Group Entertainment and Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories will together produce “Finding the Mother Tree,” which was published today. The book is described as a scientific detective story about how Simard explores her own journey as both an ecologist, a former logger and a mother.
Simard is a scientist who discovered how trees communicate through a web of underground fungi. Simard’s work was once ridiculed, but her work has been considered influential not just to science, forever changing the way we look at trees, but also to the creative world, with James Cameron even being inspired by her work in imagining “Avatar” and the fi