Shana Feste to direct and write MERMAID: A TWIST ON THE CLASSIC TALE adaptation

Carolyn Turgeon's novel adaptation Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale will be directed and written by Shana Feste for Sony Pictures.

Feste directed Country Strong for Sony who acquired film rights to Mermaid, a dark retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."

Material Pictures' Tobey Maguire and Jenno Topping are producing, the same teams on Country Strong.

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale tells of a princess who must save her ravaged kingdom by embarking on a dangerous journey to marry a rival kingdom's prince, not knowing that a beautiful mermaid has fallen for him and sacrificed all to be with him.