https://www.cnet.com/news/s-town-the-podcast-by-serial-producers-is-getting-a-movie-adaptation/

Participant Media have acquired the rights to S-Town, the famous podcast from the team behind Serial and This American Life. Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed the Oscar winning Spotlight, is currently in talks to direct the adaptation, reports Deadline Wednesday.

S-Town follows an Alabaman horologist named John McLemore, who sent an email to the creators of This American Life, back in 2012, asking for help in a murder investigation. This led Brian Reed, producer of the podcast to McLemore's hometown of Woodstock and kicked off a series of events that feature family feuds, hidden treasure and a puzzling mystery.