Brie Larson as Author Jeannette Walls in New Photo From 'The Glass Castle'

Brie Larson at the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 27, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Brie Larson at the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 27, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

After winning a Best Actress Oscar earlier this year for Room, Brie Larson hasn’t languished wondering what to do for an encore. Her impressive array of upcoming projects includes Free Fire (from acclaimed High-Rise director Ben Wheatley) and Captain Marvel, in which she’ll be Marvel Studios’ first female superhero carrying a movie of her own. Before the latter of those two projects hits the screen, however, she’ll star alongside Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson for her Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton in The Glass Castle — and we can now get a look at the first photos from the eagerly anticipated film, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

Based on Jeannette Walls’ best-selling 2005 autobiography of the same name, The Glass Castle will feature Larson as Walls, and detail the author’s upbringing at the hands of a drunken father (Harrelson) and artist mother (Watts). This unconventional clan, which also includes Wells’ three siblings, spends years moving from place to place in and around the West Coast (California, Arizona, Nevada). If it hews closely to its source material, Cretton’s film should chart its protagonist’s development from a young child coping with intense familial dysfunction to a successful writer and editor — a profession that Larson seems to be holding in the first of EW.com’s exclusive photos, which you can see in the above tweet.

Watts previously posted a pic on Instagram from the set (see it below) that echoes one of the official stills debuting at EW.com. The Lionsgate film currently has no firm release date, but it is expected to hit theaters in 2017.

Smashing day with the #glasscastlemovie #family ????

A photo posted by Naomi Watts (@naomiwatts) on Jul 3, 2016 at 7:28pm PDT