Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, film revolves around an attorney, to be played by Clooney, who is forced to get closer to his daughters after a family tragedy. Woodley will play the oldest daughter.
Payne will helm the pic and produce along with Jim Burke from a script adapted by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
Woodley can be seen on ABC Family skein “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.”