John Proctor is the Villain Movie Happening with Tina Fey, Marc Platt

The hit Tony-nominated Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain is getting the big screen treatment thanks to Tina Fey and Marc Platt.

In a competitive situation, Universal picked up the film rights to the play, with Fey and Platt attached to produce. Playwright Kimberly Belflower will adapt her work for the screen, while Sadie Sink, who earned a Tony nomination for the show, will executive produce.

John Proctor is the Villain follows a group of high school girls in rural Georgia who are studying Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and create a feminism club as they try to make sense of the greater #MeToo movement and their own relationships with the men — classmates, teachers and fathers — in their small community.

“At its core, Belflower has constructed a poignant story of girlhood and empowering friendships,” reads The Hollywood Reporter’s review of the play, which earned seven Tony nominations, including best play. The play, which has grossed over $10 million, will run through Aug. 31.

Fey and Eric Gurian will produce through their Uni-based Little Stranger, Inc. While Platt, who produced the studio’s two-part Wicked movie series, will produce with Adam Siegel and Jared LeBoff via his Uni-based Marc Platt Productions. Svp Britt Hennemuth will oversee the project for the studio.

Fey is represented by WME, 3 Arts and Ziffren. Belflower, who is repped by WME, Untitled and Goodman Genow, is also behind plays Lost Girl and Saint Pigtail. Sink, who will next be seen in the final season of Netflix series Stranger Things, is represented by WME, Mara Entertainment, Peikoff Mahan