Overview
- Thea Sharrock was announced as director in reporting published May 26–27, and she will lead Lionsgate’s feature adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’s novel The Things We Leave Unfinished.
- Producer Todd Lieberman will back the film through his Hidden Pictures banner while Arash Amel has adapted the novel for the screen and Yarros will serve as an executive producer via Full Measures Productions.
- Lionsgate executives Scott O’Brien and Maria Ascanio are overseeing the project and Hidden Pictures executive Carly Kleinbart Elter is credited with bringing the property to the studio.
- The story, set between the modern Rockies and a World War II timeline, follows a recently divorced woman who returns home to finish her great-grandmother’s wartime love story and uncovers family secrets without revealing key plot twists.
- The announcement follows Lionsgate’s recent success with book adaptations and signals the studio’s continued strategy of investing in bestselling IP, though no casting, production start date, financing details, or release window have been announced yet.