Amy Adams Collaborates With Searchlight, Annapurna On Neo-Horror Nightbitch – The Hollywood Reporter

After two years of development, nightbeach With Amy Adams Ready to howl.

Searchlight has picked up the global rights to the feature project, in collaboration with Annapurna About an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel, the studio arm announced Thursday.

Adams stars in the project he writes and directs, Marielle HellerActress-turned-Director Behind 2015 Diary of a teenage girl Melissa McCarthy Drama Art Forgery Can you forget me? A September photo shoot is set in Los Angeles, with the feature streaming on Hulu.

Yoder’s book, published in July 2021 for Doubleday Books, tells of a woman who finds herself in a mind-boggling, energy-draining routine of raising a young child in a suburban home while her husband is on long business trips. According to Searchlight, women are slowly embracing the feral power so deeply rooted in motherhood as they become increasingly aware of the strange, undeniable signs that a dog might turn out to be.

The book looked at the pressure women feel at being modern mothers, and the narrative project is described as a dark, comic new horror. Annapurna picked up the rights to the book in July 2020 and was developing it as a vehicle for Adams, later bringing Heller.

Producers are Megan Ellison and Ann Curry (who produced Heller Diary of a teenage girl And Can you forget me?), Stacey O’Neill, Christina Oh, Adam Poulsen, and Sue Nigley, plus Heller and Adams. Heller and Brewster produce with their production sign Defiant By Nature, Adams and O’Neil via their Bond Group, and Carey via Archer Gray shingle.

Sami Sher and Havela Brewster are executive producers.

“Rachel Yoder’s book took my breath away,” Heller said in a statement. “I haven’t felt this way about the book since I read Diary of a teenage girl Many years ago. Rachel’s darkly funny tale of motherhood and anger made me feel visible. And adapting it with Amy Adams in mind is the thing that got me through this pandemic.”

Heller last directed the 2019 Mister Rogers drama, Nice day around Which earned Tom Hanks an Academy Award nomination. I worked with Searchlight once before, with its distribution from the company Can you forget me? Heller was represented by Utah and Johnson Shapiro.

Last year, Adams starred in Universal’s adaptation of a Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansenas well as excitement Women in the window. are the following stars in Depressedthe sequel to the 2007 Disney song fascinated. Adams is represented by WME, Linden Entertainment, and Sloane Offer.