Where The Crawdads Sing: Cinema release date, cast, trailer and more
15.07.2022 - 20:41
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A film of Where The Crawdads Sing, the best-selling murder mystery novel by Delia Owens, is out this summer.
Distributed by Sony, the movie is co-produced by a familiar face in Hollywood, Reese Witherspoon. The hugely successful 2018 novel Where The Crawdads Sing has reportedly sold more than 12 million copies.
Reese chose the novel for her book club back in September 2018 and went on to gain the rights to develop it into a movie. Fans of the novel will undoubtedly be eager to see this film adaptation.
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Rotten Tomatoes describes the plot of Where The Crawdads Sing as: “Abandoned as a girl, Kya raised herself in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina.
"For years, rumours of the marsh girl haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world."
The Where The Crawdads Sing film is set to be released on July 22 in UK cinemas.
Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones plays the main role of Kya. Other cast members in the movie include Taylor John Smith, who plays Tate Walker, and Harris Dickinson, who plays Chase Andrews.
Ahna O’Reilly, David Strathairn, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Hyatt, Jojo Regina, Sterling Macer Jr, Eric Ladin and Jayson Warner Smith also star in the cast.
Other cast members for Where the Crawdads sing are:
Charlie Talbert
Luke David Blumm
Billy Slaughter
Bill Kelly
Joe Chrest
Caroline Cole
Elton LeBlanc
Sarah Durn
Jerri Tubbs
Robert Larriviere
Logan Macrae
Where the Crawdads sings has two official trailers, with the first being released in March 2022. The latest trailer was released two months later on