AMY ADAMS AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL TO ADAPT FINDING THE MOTHER TREE BOOK ON RENOWNED SCIENTIST WHO UNVEILED STUNNING LANGUAGE OF TREES

  FINDING THE MOTHER TREE 

JAKE GYLLENHAAL & AMY ADAMS TO PRODUCE ADAPTATION

Amy Adams will also take the lead role

And it certainly does sound like an interesting read: as Deadline reports, Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal will team up to produce the adaptation of FINDING THE MOTHER TREE just published memoirs of Suzanne Simard. Amy will also star as Simard, a world renowned scientist and ecologist who first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi. Some deem that her work has forever changed the way we look at trees. 

FINDING THE MOTHER TREE follows Simard's unique journey as a mother, a former logger, and an iconoclastic scientist and reveals how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, evolve and communicate. At the center of it all are Mother Trees: mysterious,

Jake Gyllenhaal will produce the adaptation together with Amy

powerful forces that connect and sustain all the life that surrounds them. While her revolutionary findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by research and data. Knopf published the book last week in USA.