EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming feature adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s bestselling novel Three Incestuous Sisters is adding some serious star power. Deadline is hearing that Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor are set to star. Italian director Alice Rohrwacher is set to helm a script she wrote with Ottessa Moshfegh that we hear is loosely based on the book.
Because of that, plot details are being kept under wraps.
The film will be financed and produced by Indian Paintbrush. Johnson and Ro Donnelly will produce for TeaTime Pictures, along with Steven Rales for Indian Paintbrush. Rohrwacher will also produce. Principal photography is set to begin in April.
The all-star cast are all having their moments. Johnson is coming off the romantic drama Materialists where she starred opposite Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. She was also recently seen in Daddio opposite Sean Penn.
Ronan is coming off strong reviews for The Outrun. She is currently shooting a Sam Mendes Beatles movie in which she will play Linda McCartney. She was also recently seen in Bad Apples.
Buckley was most recently seen in Focus Features and Amblin’s Oscar-nominated Hamnet, scoring her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win. She can be seen next in The Bride, which also stars Christian Bale and opens next week.
O’Connor was most recently seen in the latest installment in the Knives Out series Wake Up Dead Man. Next up, he stars opposite Emily Blunt in the Steven Spielberg UFO pic Disclosure Day.
Rohrwacher most recent feature, La Chimera (2023), also starring O’Connor along with Isabella Rossellini, premiered in competition at Cannes and was named one of the top five international films of 2023 by the National Board of Review. She is the recipient of the 2026 European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award.
Rohrwacher is represented by UTA. Johnson is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Ronan is represented by CAA. Buckley is repped by CAA, United Agents, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. O’Connor is repped by CAA, Independent Talent Group, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Moshfegh is represented by WME and Entertainment 360. Niffenegger is represented by Anonymous Content and Regal Hoffmann & Associates.