“Where The Crawdads Sing” is a new film based on the best-selling book of the same name by Delia Owens.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 American mystery drama film
- It is based on the novel of the same name by Delia Owens
- It is directed by Olivia Newman
- From a screenplay written by Lucy Alibar
- And produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter
- The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer, Jr., and David Strathairn
- Where the Crawdads Sing was released in the United States on July 15, 2022, by Sony Pictures Releasing
- It received mixed reviews from critics
- Catherine “Kya” Clark is an endlessly resourceful young girl who grows up in a North Carolina marsh
- Abandoned by her parents and older siblings in the early 1950s, Kya learns to survive on her own
- She is taught to read and write by her friend Tate Walker and falls for him, but is left behind once again when he goes to college.
- Chase Andrews is a quarterback who draws Kya into a tryst with promises of marriage that never materialize
- After Kya ends their relationship, Chase attempts to rape her and she narrowly escapes
- Then, while she is away, Chase is found dead and Kya is engulfed in a murder trial
- With the evidence against her seeming insurmountable
- On January 25, 2021, it was announced that Taylor John Smith and Harris Dickinson would be joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in a film adaptation produced by Hello Sunshine and 3000 Pictures for Sony Pictures, based on Delia Owens’ best-selling novel Where the Crawdads Sing
- The film will be directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay written by Lucy Alibar
- On March 17, 2021, David Strathairn joined the cast of the film
- On March 30, 2021, Jayson Warner Smith joined the cast of the film
- In April 2021, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Hyatt, Ahna O’Reilly, Sterling Macer Jr., and Jojo Regina joined the cast
- In June 2021, Eric Ladin joined the cast of the film
- Principal photography took place from March 30 to June 28, 2021, in New Orleans and Houma, Louisiana
- Mychael Danna composed the film’s musical scor
- American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift wrote and performed the original song “Carolina” for the film
- When the film’s promotional trailer was first released, she said that she “got absolutely lost in [the book] when I read it years ago” and “wanted to create something haunting and ethereal”
- It was previously scheduled to be released on June 24, 2022
- Before being delayed to July 22, 2022
- And then being moved up by a week to July 15
- In the United States and Canada, Where the Crawdads Sing was released alongside Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- It is projected to gross around $10 million from 3,626 theaters in its opening weekend
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 34% rating
- Based on 65 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 5/10
- The website’s consensus reads, “Daisy Edgar-Jones gives it her all, but Where the Crawdads Sing is ultimately unable to distill its source material into a tonally coherent drama”
- On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 47 out of 100
- Based on 27 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
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