According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leslie Mann and Kate Bosworth have come aboard Goodnight Moon. The script is a semi-autobiographical drama from Elgin James. He is a writer-director who started the street gang FSU in the Boston area before going to the Sundance Labs.

Chris Coy and Kyle Gallner have also joined the cast. The story sees "Juno Temple and AnnaSophia Robb as young girls who find themselves in trouble after they run away to Los Angeles and hook up with skaters and street kids."

Mann will play Temple's mom. She is a woman who works at a secondhand clothing store but has seen better days. Bosworth is going to be Mann 's sister.

Coy will play the role of an opportunistic, sociopathic street kid. Lastly, Gallner is a skater. They use the girls to run a deal that goes awry.