{"id":16800,"date":"2025-07-23T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:23:07","slug":"dakota-fanning-elle-fanning-to-star-in-nightingale-first-movie-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16800\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning to Star in Nightingale, First Movie Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dakota_fanning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dakota Fanning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/elle_fanning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elle Fanning<\/a> are ready for their greatest reunion yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Uptown Girls star and The Great actress will take their sister bond to a new level, as they are set to conquer new territory: starring alongside each other in a movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time ever, sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning are set to star in a film together,\u201d Sony Pictures announced July 22 in a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMa8eoqygXX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> post with the sisters, \u201cin the adaptation of Kristin Hannah\u2019s global book phenomenon The Nightingale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dakota, 31, and Elle, 27, will also produce the movie with their company Lewellen Pictures, alongside Hello Sunshine, the production company founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/reese_witherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Witherspoon<\/a>, and The Cantillon Company. Reese had\u00a0also picked the international best-selling book\u2014which follows two sisters in France during World War II\u2014for her Reese\u2019s Book Club in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The film is currently scheduled to be released by TriStar Pictures in February 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Fanning sisters both appeared in the 2001 movie I Am Sam, Elle played a younger version of Dakota\u2019s character Lucy, and the pair didn\u2019t appear in scenes together. As a result, The Nightingale will mark their first time sharing the screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning are ready for their greatest reunion yet. The Uptown Girls star and The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}