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Production
 Development and Casting 

In October 2013, it was announced that a new film adaptation of the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was in development at Sony Pictures, with Olivia Milch writing the screenplay, and Robin Swicord and Denise Di Novi serving as producers.[6] In March 2015, Amy Pascal joined as a producer on the new adaptation, with Sarah Polley hired to write the script and potentially direct.[7] Ultimately, Polley's involvement never went beyond initial discussions.[8] In August 2016, Greta Gerwig was hired to write the screenplay.[9] In June 2018, Gerwig was announced as the film's director in addition to being its screenwriter.[10] She had heard about Sony's plans to adapt the book in 2015 and urged her agent to get her in touch with the studio, conceding that while she "was not on anybody's list to direct this film", it was something she aspired to do, citing how the book inspired her to become a writer and director.[11]

After Gerwig’s agents got her a meeting with Amy Pascal, Gerwig approached Pascal with her vision for the story of Little Women, which convinced Pascal and found that her pitch addressed the conversations had of commerce and art and art being commercially viable. Pascal describes Gerwig's pitch as “how the ambition and the dreams that you have as a girl get stomped out of you as you grow up”.

- From the Hollywood Reporter, Making of 'Little Women': Greta Gerwig Gives Modern Take on 1868 Novel for Big Screen

In addition to being Gerwig's first studio film she had directed, Little Women was her second solo directorial endeavor.[12][13]