Shubhabrata Dutta
Joey King will begin filming her next biographical project soon. Principal photography on the telefilm ‘Girl Who Fell from The Sky,’ will take place in Kelowna, British Columbia, and Mexico starting this May. The director has yet to be confirmed. Stanley M. Brooks wrote the story. Confirmation regarding adaptation from Juliane Koepcke’s memoir ‘When I Fell from the Sky: How the Jungle Gave Me My Life Back’ is awaited.
The story centers on Juliane Koepcke, a high school senior and the sole survivor of the December 24, 1971, crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rain forest. The 17-year-old was on a Christmas Eve flight with her mother to join her father for Christmas when the Lockheed L-188A Electra, en route from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm and was struck by lightning. The plane was incinerated; Koepcke was ejected, still belted to her seat. She fell 10,000 feet – almost two miles through the air, before the canopy of the Amazon rain forest broke her fall and miraculously saved her life. From there, the teenager struggled to survive an 11-day ordeal, navigating through the treacherous jungles to be rescued.
Joey King’s previous biographical dramas include the Hulu crime miniseries ‘The Act,’ where she played Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was convicted of murdering her mother in 2015; and James Wan’s horror movie ‘The Conjuring,’ where we saw her as Christine Perron, a kid in the Perron family targeted by an evil spirit in their house in Harrisville, Rhode Island, in 1971. She also starred in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones,’ a Hulu miniseries based on Georgia Hunter’s novel, which she wrote, inspired by her family’s struggles during World War II and the Holocaust. King’s latest performance was as Tally in the Netflix sci-fi movie ‘Uglies.’ We will next see her in ‘Practical Magic 2,’ alongside Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. It will be released theatrically on September 11, 2026.
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