David Gordon Green‘s Your Highness and The Sitter may have looked good on the surface, but the overall product failed to impress its audience. So the filmmaker is taking a departure from directing original comedies to directing adaptations. According to Deadline, Green will start off by taking on a big-screen adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular book Little House on the Prairie for Sony Pictures.

Wilder’s Little House series consists of semi-autobiographical books based on her life with her family in 19th century America. Though there were many made for TV adaptations and miniseries – there was even an animated series – its most popular adaptation came in the 1974-1984 televised series starting Michael Landon.