Legendary 11-time Grammy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Dolly Parton (9 to 5) is set to star in Hello Sunshine’s feature film adaptation of Run, Rose, Run, the recently released novel written by Parton and James Patterson.
Parton and Patterson will produce the feature alongside Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine’s President of Film and Television, Lauren Neustadter. Ashley Strumwasser will executive produce for Hello Sunshine.
The novel Run, Rose, Run was published on March 7, 2022, by Little, Brown, and Company and debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Parton also released a companion album of the same name on March 4, 2022, through Parton’s Butterfly Records. The album debuted at #1 on the Current Country albums, American/Folk, and Bluegrass charts.
Set in Nashville, Run, Rose, Run is about a young woman who comes to country music’s capital city to pursue her music-making dreams. The source of her heart-wrenching songs is a brutal secret she has tried desperately to hide, but the past she has fled is reaching out to control her future—and it may destroy everything she has worked for.