Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore Starring in ‘Moonsong’

(Left) Elle Fanning arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Right) Julianne Moore attends Netflix’s ‘May December’ Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Natasha Campos/Getty Images for Netflix.

Preview:

Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore are aboard ‘Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses.’
Rebecca Miller is directing her script.
It’ll chart the life of ‘Goodnight Moon’ author Margaret Wise Brown.

‘Goodnight Moon,’ published by Margaret Wise Brown in 1947 with illustrations by Clement Hurd, has long been a staple of bedtime reading for young children.

And now Brown’s own story is set to arrive on screens, as Deadline brings word that Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore are starring in ‘Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses.’

Rebecca Miller (‘Maggie’s Plan’) is writing and directing the new biopic, with Martin Scorsese aboard as executive producer after the two formed a friendship via Miller making the ‘Mr. Scorsese’ documentary about her fellow filmmaker.

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What will the story of ‘Moonsong’?

Elle Fanning at the Disney presentation at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas.Photo: Disney.

‘Moonsong’ is based on the book ‘Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon’ by Leonard S. Marcus and tells the story of beloved children’s book author Brown, whose classic books include ‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘The Runaway Bunny’.

Given the title “the laureate of the nursery,” Brown’s impact is still felt decades after, with her books being read before bed and in classrooms around the world.

Where else can we see Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore?

(L to R) Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird and Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’. Photo Credit: Murray Close.

Fanning will next be seen in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,’ followed by ‘The Nightingale,’ which she stars in and produces alongside sister Dakota Fanning. She is currently in production on A24’s TV series ‘Discretion,’ opposite Nicole Kidman.

Moore will be back on our screens in Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Debut’ for A24 and just completed Tom Ford’s ‘Cry to Heaven.’