Rachel Yoder’s next novel “Nightbitch” is Amy Adams’ next star vehicle.
Amy Adams has her next star vehicle aligned with “Nightbitch,” an adaptation of Annapurna Pictures’ upcoming Rachel Yoder novel. Deadline first reported the news that Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee, will headline the film as a housewife and mother in a very unusual situation. This is her latest project after finishing with Oscar Howard’s hopeful “Hillbilly Elegy” by Ron Howard, and before the upcoming release of “Woman in the Window” by director Joe Wright, another literary adaptation.
The novel “Nightbitch” will be published by Doubleday in the summer of 2021. Here is the synopsis, courtesy of author Yoder’s website: “In ‘Nightbitch’, an unidentified woman and former artist, she got into domestic life after of the birth of her son, worries that he is turning into a dog. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, easily dismisses his fears from hotel rooms. Meanwhile, the mother is forced to deal with the very real physical manifestations of her lonely anxiety, with just her two-year-old son in company. As her symptoms intensify, she struggles to keep her alter canine identity a secret. She finally sprang into action after an impulsive encounter and disastrous with the family cat, she searches for a cure for her condition in a multi-level herbal marketing scheme, a group of moms all inexplicably named Jen and Wanda White, a mysterious academic specialized in ‘mythical ethnography’.
It is not yet known if production will start on the film, but it marks his last collaboration with Annapurna Pictures after “The Master,” “American Hustle” and “Vice,” all of which garnered their Oscar nominations, as well as “Su. “Adams also received Oscar nominations for” The Fighter, “” Doubt “and” Junebug. ” She earned wide acclaim in 2018, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, for the HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects,” adapted from “Gone Girl” author’s debut novel Gillian Flynn. .
Some predict a streaming debut for Adams’ upcoming film, “The Woman in the Window,” which was on and off screenings and trial editions throughout 2019. Adapted from author AJ Finn’s 2018 cauldron, originally It was slated for an October 2019 awards season launch, then moved to May 15 this year, and then was removed from the calendar entirely.
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