Who's Making Where the Crawdads Sing? Where the Crawdads Sing is being adapted to film by screenwriter Lucy Alibar, who wrote Beasts of the Southern Wild. Olivia Newman, who wrote and directed the Netflix movie First Match, will direct Where the Crawdads Sing. Finally, Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter are producing the film via their production company, Hello Sunshine, for 3000 Pictures, Sony's literary-minded feature label.