Amy Adams teams with spotlight, Annapurna for Neo-Horror Nightbitch – The Hollywood Reporter

After two years of development, Nightbitch with Amy Adams is ready to howl.

Searchlight has acquired the worldwide rights to the game project and is teaming up with Annapurna on the adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel, the studio’s arm announced Thursday.

Adams is involved in the project, which is being written by and will be directed by, Marielle Heller, the actress who became the filmmaker behind 2015’s A teenage girl’s diary and Melissa McCarthy’s art-forgery drama Can you ever forgive me? A September filming in Los Angeles is being monitored, with the feature to stream on Hulu.

Yoder’s book, published in July 2021 by Doubleday Books, tells the story of a woman who finds herself in a thoughtful and energy-intensive routine of raising a young child in a suburban home while her husband is on long business trips. According to Searchlight, the woman is slowly embracing the wild power that is deeply rooted in motherhood as she becomes more and more aware of the bizarre and indisputable signs that she might be becoming a dog.

The book looked at the pressure women feel to be modern mothers, and the feature project is described as being a dark comic neo-horror. Annapurna acquired the rights to the book in July 2020 and was developing it as a tool for Adams, and later acquired Heller.

Producer is Megan Ellison, Anne Carey (who produced Heller’s A teenage girl’s diary and Can you ever forgive me?), Stacy O’Neil, Christina Oh, Adam Paulsen and Sue Naegle as well as Heller and Adams. Heller and Brewster produce via their Defiant By Nature production banner, Adams and O’Neil via their Bond Group company and Carey via its Archer Gray shingle.

Sammy Scher and Havilah Brewster are executive producers.

“Rachel Yoder’s book took my breath away,” Heller said in a statement. “I have not felt this way about a book since I read it A teenage girl’s diary Many years ago. Rachel’s dark funny tale of motherhood and rage made me feel seen. And adapting it with Amy Adams in mind has been what has kept me through the pandemic. “

Heller has most recently directed the Mister Rogers drama from 2019, A beautiful day in the neighborhood, which gave Tom Hanks an Oscar nomination. She worked with Searchlight once before, where the company distributed her Can you ever forgive me? Heller is represented by UTA and Johnson Shapiro.

Last year, Adams starred in Universal’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansenas well as thriller The woman in the window. She will participate next time De-enchantedthe sequel to the 2007 Disney hit Enchanted. Adams is represented by WME, Linden Entertainment and Sloane Offer.