Acclaimed podcast S-Town to be adapted into film; Spotlight's Tom McCarthy being roped in to direct

New York: The popular podcast S-Town is being developed as a movie. The film production company Participant Media has acquired the feature film rights to the seven-episode podcast. Spotlight  director Tom McCarthy is in negotiations to direct. Made by the creators of the podcast Serial, S-Town is about an Alabama antique clock restorer from Woodstock, Alabama, named John B McLemore. In 2012, he sent an email to the makers of This American Life asking for help in a murder investigation. Longtime This American Life producer Brian Reed traveled to McLemore’s hometown. But Reed uncovered not so much a whodunit procedural as a more mysterious small-town tale. Deadline first reported the deal.