Carreys 'Children Of The Dust Bowl' Gets Writer

Miramax Films has enlisted scribe Charlie Mitchell to adapt "Children of the Dust Bowl," the nonfiction tome penned by social historian Jerry Stanley, reports Variety.

Project, to star Jim Carrey, centers on a schoolteacher in 1939 in Bakersfield, Calif., and a group of "Okie" immigrant children who were barred from the California school system as being undesirable to educate. The teacher and the children walked into the desert and built their own school, using whatever materials they could find.

"Charlie knows the world of this film first hand," said producer Rob Cohen. "He's an exceptionally gifted writer, and I'm thrilled he's bringing his unique sensibility to the project."