Where the Crawdads Sing: novel adaptation of the best-selling novel starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as a marching girl
Film plot and background
Movie adaptation of the bestselling novel starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as the March Girl.
The Marsh Girl is the subject of many myths in the Barkley Cove community. In fact, few have ever met the reclusive Kya (Daisy Ridley-Jones), who has lived on her own in the swamps of North Carolina since early childhood. Yet she wants for nothing there.
When two young men (Harris Dickinson and Taylor John Smith) befriend her, she realises the benefits that life in civilisation could bring. But one of the men dies mysteriously. It is clear to the community that Kya must have committed the murder. Soon her case ends up in court, where the prosecution demands nothing less than the death penalty for the young woman. As her lawyer Tom Milton (David Strathairn) fights to solve the case and save her life, more and more revelations come to light about the community that will change everyone’s lives forever.
“The Song of the Crayfish” – background, cast, cinema release
2018 Delia Owens published the novel “The Song of the Crayfish”, which quickly went to the top of the bestseller lists and sold over 12 million copies worldwide by 2022. Reese Witherspoon, who reviewed the book in her book club shortly after publication, is the producer of the film adaptation.
Olivia Newman (“First Match”) serves as director from the adapted screenplay by Lucy Alibar. Starring are Daisy Ridley-Jones (“Fresh”), Taylor John Smith (“Hunter Killer”), Harris Dickinson (“The King’s Man”), David Straithairn (“Nomadland”) and Michael Hyatt (“Nightcrawler”).
Filming took place in New Orleans and Louisiana in 2021. On 18 August 2022, “The Song of the Crayfish” will be released in German cinemas.
