EXCLUSIVE: Ron Howard is no stranger to taking real-life stories and adapting them into incredible cinematic experiences, and he looks to have found that next powerful story to tell. Sources tell Deadline that Howard has come on to direct the Amazon MGM Studios drama Alone at Dawn , with Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway set to star.

Amazon will release the film in theaters. IT falls under Amazon MGM’s recently renewed first-look film deal with Brian Grazer and Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.

Producers include Imagine Entertainment, The Hideaway Entertainment and Thruline Entertainment, in addition to Kristy Grisham, William Connor and Patrick Newall. Michael Russell Gunn will executive produce. Michael Russell Gunn penned the script, with previous revisions by Erin Cressida Wil

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