Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In to hit the silver screen

Sheryl Sandberg' Lean In

SONY Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Facebook Inc executive Sheryl Sandberg’s bestselling memoir on female empowerment, Lean In a source familiar with the deal said last Friday.

Sony Pictures’ Columbia Pictures division will handle development of the script, which will be based on themes in the book and not on Sandberg’s life, the source said. The script will be written by Nell Scovell, who helped Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, pen the book.