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After she had written the script, Sofia Coppola was heartbroken to discover that another company was already producing an adaptation of the book themselves. However, they were not happy with their script, so she showed them hers and they ended up using it instead.

Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth originally gave the book to Sofia Coppola. After reading it, she decided to make it into a movie.

After seeing her in the movie Manny & Lo (1996), Sofia Coppola offered Scarlett Johansson a role in the film. Johansson, however, considered the script to be "too intense" and turned it down. Johansson would star in Coppola's next film, Lost in Translation: Zwischen den Welten (2003).

Coppola was inspired to write the film after reading the source novel: "I really didn't know I wanted to be a director until I read The Virgin Suicides and saw so clearly how it had to be done," she said. "I immediately saw the central story as being about what distance and time and memory do to you, and about the extraordinary power of the unfathomable."

Alicia Silverstone was offered the role of Mary Lisbon, but turned it down.