Diana Ossana will begin work on the script adaptation of Stuart and Shelby Stout’s Hope’s Wish in the fall.
Oscar-winning writer will also produce with Jonah Hirsch and Ossana’s Brokeback Mountain coworker and fellow Oscar winner Larry McMurtry will serve as executive producer along with Stuart Stout, Bert Hesse and Stephen Bridgewater.
Ossana said:
Hope’s Wish reminded me of the innocence of children and their refusal to accept the limits of what adults consider might be possible. I feel privileged to be a part of bringing Hope’s inspirational story to film.”
Hope’s Wish: How One Girl’s Dream Made Others Come True is a touching story of one brave young girl used her final wish to fulfill the wishes of 155 other children. When Hope Stout was diagnosed with bone cancer, the Stouts prayed for a miracle and the God gave it to them, but not in the way the Stouts imagined. Instead this young girl asked for what seemed kind of impossible – raised one million dollars in one month to grant the wishes to all the children on the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s list for Central and Western North Carolina. Both parents walk alongside Hope every step of the way on her journey that began after she received a diagnosis of cancer to being dependent on crutches to finally being bed ridden.
Diana Ossana has signed on for Fixed Point Films and Shining Star Productions. Fixed Point’s credits include the drama Main Street starring Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom and Ellen Burstyn and Passion Play thriller movie with Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox and Bill Murray.
There’s no word if previously attached David S. Ward, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay The Sting is still frontrunner to direct the feature film.
The Hope’s Wish project has the cooperation of the March Forth with Hope Foundation, the charitable organization founded by the Stout family, and also the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Stay tuned for casting updates.
