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Laura Ingalls Wilder fans, hold on to your bonnets: It's been a long journey, but the family wagon is one oxen change closer to pulling into theaters.

Paramount Pictures has acquired the "Little House on the Prairie" movie project, according to 

. Sony originally picked up the rights in 2012, but never saddled the horses.

The film, which does not yet have a release date, will be directed by "Martha Marcy May Marlene" filmmaker Sean Durkin, with a script by Abi Morgan.

Five things you didn't know about Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wilder's tales of life on the prairie have captivated millions of readers since the first book was published in 1932. A new generation of bonnet-loving, hair-braiding fans was converted when the television adaptation launched in 1974. The show starred Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls and Melissa Gilbert as Laura herself.

The show was set in Walnut Grove, Minn. — though it was filmed in California. The Ingalls family's real travels took them all across the Midwest, through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and South Dakota. 

In 2014, fans clamoring for more from Wilder received a historical treat: Pamela Smith Hill released "Pioneer Girl," Wilder's annotated autobiography. The book instantly 

 of its first print run as readers dug into Wilder's adult account of her life on the frontier. 

The "Little House" books, she always maintained, were mostly true. Hill notes that Wilder called them "not a history but a true story founded on historical fact." The television show took its own liberties with Wilder's life story. Now it's time to see Hollywood's interpretation of life in 1800s Minnesota.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder road trip

If you can't wait until Pa, Ma, Mary, Laura and Almanzo make their movie debut, you can visit a number of 

 from Pepin, Wis., to Walnut Grove to DeSmet, S.D., to get your Wilder fix.

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Watch out, Walnut Grove. Laura Ingalls Wilder's tales of growing up on the frontier are set to be adapted into a film.

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