A film adaptation of Rebecca Yarros‘ best-selling ballerina novel “Variation” is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has confirmed.

“It Ends With Us” screenwriter Christy Hall is penning the script for the movie and President Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and American Ballet Theatre vet Misty Copeland, who recently retired as the company’s principal dancer, are producing.

From Yarros (best known as the author of the “Fourth Wing” romantasy novel series, which is in development as a TV series at Amazon), “Variation” follows a renowned ballerina who returns to her family’s Cape Cod summer home to heal from her career-threatening injury, where she reunites with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never forgot about. As they confront unaddressed feelings from their past, family secrets about the tragedy that drove them apart are uncovered, they’re forced to question whether they made the wrong choices for the right reasons.

Along with “Variation” and “Fourth Wing,” other Yarros book-to-screen adaptations currently in the works include “In the Likely Event” movie at Netflix and “The Last Letter” as a film from Amazon MGM.

“Variation” marks the first feature film produced by Copeland’s Life in Motion Productions, which was co-founded with Emmy-winning writer and producer Leyla Fayyaz with the mission of “amplifying movement storytelling in film, television and on stage.” Under Copeland, who was named American Ballet Theatre’s first Black female principal dancer in 2015, Life in Motion has also produced the Emmy-nominated documentary “Lift” and the recently released documentary “Match in a Haystack,” as well as the indie narrative short, “Flower,” which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an NAACP Award.

Higher Ground’s previous film credits include the Academy Award-winning documentary feature “American Factory” and the recently released Netflix apocalyptic thriller “Leave the World Behind,” as well as “Rustin,” “American Symphony,” “Crip Camp,” “Fatherhood,” “Becoming” and “Worth.”

News of the “Variation” film project was first reported by The Washington Post.