Ellen DeGeneres is set to turn one of author, Jodi Picoult’s books into a movie. “Sing You Home” the lesbian-themed novel is an incredible story about a woman who battles her ex-husband for the right to her frozen eggs so that she may impregnate her female partner with them.
Hopefully the movie adaptation of Sing You Home will be underway in the very near future, as it’s a story about the struggles of sexuality, pregnancy, marriage, the legal system, religion and doing what’s right. It’s universal, and was inspired, Picoult says, by her gay son.
Jodi Picoult said:
I couldn’t be happier about the fact that Ellen DeGeneres has acquired the movie rights to Sing You Home. I truly believe if anyone can get this film made — and do it justice — it’s going to take someone who is compassionate, determined, and who truly understands the subject matter. Honestly, how lucky am I as an author to have someone like her involved!?
If you haven’t yet read the book, the women in the relationship are Vanessa, an out lesbian who works as a school counselor, and Zoe, a music therapist who starts out married to a man but finds herself falling for Vanessa after a divorce and several failed pregnancy attempts. Both women are in their mid-to-late ’30s and find each other at a time in their lives when they crave companionship but weren’t really looking for it. Their courtship starts out as friends-only, but soon turns into a romance that neither were expecting.
When they decide to have children, that’s when things take an interesting turn, and Zoe’s ex-husband, Max, helps demonstrate the feelings of the Christian right and the lawyers who work on their behalf.
Hopefully Ellen will get them to stick to the original novel and not mess it up like others did with Picoult’s “My Sisters Keeper” that made a mockery of an awesome and devestating book.