Lionsgate has optioned Larry Brown's final novel, "The Rabbit Factory," for Ithaka Entertainment to produce. Vondie Curtis-Hall, who directed the upcoming urban gangster film "Waist Deep" for Rogue Pictures, is attached to direct. Short story writer and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones ("The Pugilist at Rest") penned the adaptation.

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