With the second season of Apple TV and Hello Sunshine’s The Last Thing He Told Me drama series drawing to a close today, it only made sense that Deadline got to chat via phone with Lauren Neustadter, President of Film & TV at Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine, about more upcoming shows — book adaptations and not — as well as films in the works, from production on The Nightingale set in Budapest earlier this week.
The Tristar feature adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s best-selling novel is another project that took time to pull together with a deal first put in place for a theatrical release Christmas 2020 that fell apart due to COVID and then the dual labor strikes in Hollywood in 2023. Hannah’s World War II novel became a Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection in March of 2023, and Deadline <a data-id="https://deadline.com/2025/07/the-nightingale-movie-release-date-michael-morris-directing-1236464963/#:~:text='The%20Nightingale':%20Elle%20And,as%20the%20schedule%20currently%20stands."
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