Deadline has reported that Ron Howard will direct the Amazon MGM Studios drama, Alone at Dawn. Anne Hathaway and Adam Driver are set to star in the military drama.

Amazon will release the film in theaters. It falls under Amazon MGM’s recently renewed first-look film deal with Brian Grazer and Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. Producers involved include Imagine Entertainment, The Hideaway Entertainment and Thruline Entertainment, as well as Kristy Grisham, William Connor and Patrick Newall. Executive producer is Michael Russell Gunn, who also penned the script, with previous revisions by Erin Cressida Wilson and Amy Herzog.

The film is based on the book of the same name by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz, and is inspired by a true story. Years after Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman fought to save his fellow soldiers, an intelligence officer endeavors to prove his valor, which leads to an investigation that would ultimately earn him the Medal of Honor. Schilling is a military consultant on the film and was also a Combat Control Technician like Chapman. Chapman Longfritz is Chapman’s sister.

Thruline Entertainment brought the manuscript of Alone at Dawn to The Hideaway Entertainment, which placed it in a heated bidding war before it became a New York Times bestseller.

The Hideaway Entertainment hired Gunn to adapt the script, and the project was brought to Imagine Entertainment. Howard was so impressed by the story that he opted to direct the film, and the project was soon set up at Amazon MGM Studios.

Howard found his lead in Driver, who is an Oscar nominee and also a former Marine, who always had an interest in telling a military story, but only if it was the right story to tell. In recent weeks, Hathaway discovered the script, and after meeting with Howard and producers, she agreed to star opposite Driver.

Howard has a great deal of experience in adapting real-life stories. His real-life adaptations include Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, which won Best Picture and gave Howard his first Oscar for directing. His most recent film for Amazon was Thirteen Lives, which followed the story of the rescue of the youth soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand.

Hathaway is currently filming The Devil Wears Prada 2 and has completed filming on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. She is also set to reprise her role as Mia Thermopolis in the third installment of The Princess Diaries. She most recently starred opposite Jessica Chastain in Mother’s Instinct. Hathaway can next be seen in Mother Mary, directed by David Lowery, and Verity, based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling book. And, earlier this year, she wrapped production for Flowervale Street, set for release in 2026.

Driver will next be seen in Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, and James Gray’s Paper Tiger.

Hathaway is represented by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Sloane Offer. Driver is represented by WME and Robert Offer of Sloane Offer. Gunn is represented by Artists First, WME and attorney David Fox. Cressida Wilson is represented by CAA, Art/Work Entertainment and Schreck Rose. Herzog is repped by WME and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett. & Kole.