Elle Fanning And Julianne Moore To Star In New Film From Rebecca Miller About ‘Goodnight Moon’ Author Margaret Wise Brown
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- Rebecca Miller will direct and write the screenplay for 'Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses,' marking her ninth film as director, based on Leonard S. Marcus's biography 'Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon'
- Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore are set to star in the biopic exploring the life of Brown, whose classic works include 'Goodnight Moon' and 'The Runaway Bunny,' originally published in the 1940s
- Martin Scorsese will executive produce, with production scheduled to begin in spring 2027; the project was brought to Miller's Round Films and producing partner Damon Cardasis by Amanda Goodwin, Keri Selig and Sasha Alexander
- The Miller-Scorsese collaboration grew out of her five-part documentary 'Mr. Scorsese,' which recently scored three Emmy nominations including for directing and previously won a DGA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Sundance grand jury prize
- Julianne Moore next stars in Jessie Eisenberg's 'The Debut' for A24 and recently completed Tom Ford's 'Cry to Heaven,' while Elle Fanning earned an Emmy nomination this week for 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' and will appear in 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'
Why it matters: With production set for spring 2027, this becomes Miller's first narrative project linked to Scorsese following their Emmy-nominated documentary collaboration. The casting pairs Moore and Fanning — both with A24 projects currently in motion — in a literary biopic about an author whose books have been in continuous print since the 1940s.
