Rising indie filmmaker Emily Carmichael will direct “Lumberjanes” for 20th Century Fox, TheWrap has learned. Considered a female version of “The Goonies, “Lumberjanes” tells the story of five young girls at summer camp who must unite to fight a supernatural threat to the camp and the surrounding forest. Ross Richie and Stephen Christy are producing for Boom!, with Adam Yoelin co-producing. Also Read: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Have No Female Directors Through 2018 “Lumberjanes” was published two years ago via Boom!’s Boom! Box imprint, and was created by Shannon Watters, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen. Will Widger wrote the first draft of the.