Prison Proper Dog Training Memoir 'Weekends With Daisy' Headed to Silver Screen (Exclusive)

Getty CBS Films has pre-emptively clicked up film rights for the forthcoming memoirWeekends with Daisy, written bySharron Kahn Luttrell.our editor recommendsTHR's 5 Books every week: Stephen King, F1, Rock History, and Umberto EcoWhat Amy Baer's Exit Way of CBS Films' Future With facets of The Blind Side, Luttrell's story particulars how just like a middle-class freelance journalist in Colonial she made a decision to volunteer with an inmate dog-training program. For a labrador puppy just for fun on saturday to continue its learning the outside world, Luttrell eventually produced adeepening relationship with both dog as well as the male convict who was simply training her jail time. (Many of the U.S. service-dog inhabitants are trained by crooks.) PHOTOS: 10 Finest Book-to-Silver Screen Adaptations in the Latter-and-a-half decades Lauren Shuler DonnerandJack Leslieof the Donners' Company are coming up with the project. Both professionals have extended attempted supporting similar inmate dog-training programs.Professionals Mark Ross and Ryan Conroy are controlling for your studio. Gotham Group'sEllen Goldsmith-VeinandLuke Sandlerrepped the acquisition in the book's film rights.Daisy is presently to entrepreneurs, though no deal has yet been set. CBS films is at production on Seven Psychopaths and 7500, while its Toronto acquisition Seafood Fishing inside the Yemen will open in theaters in March. The business will next release The Woman in Black in February. The Donners' Company most recently produced the Fox actioner X-Males: Top Quality, which made $354 million worldwide this year. Lauren Shuler-Donner CBS Films