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Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh (Dune franchise) is group to prima successful and nutrient imagination play The Midnight Library, which will beryllium directed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis, we tin reveal.
In nan “love missive to life”, Pugh “will play Nora Seed, who finds herself successful a room betwixt life and decease pinch nan chance to acquisition each nan imaginable lives she could person lived”.
Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are down nan project, which nan erstwhile is launching for nan Cannes market. The regular collaborators optioned Matt Haig’s celebrated novel, which has a screenplay by Olivier Award victor Laura Wade (Rivals) and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time).
Haig will executive-produce. First published by Canongate successful 2020, nan book has sold 15 cardinal copies and has been translated into 56 languages.
The scheme is for nan task to participate pre-production this autumn pinch sprout astatine nan commencement of 2027. Studiocanal will merchandise theatrically crossed their territory footprint of nan UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia and NZ.
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin of Blueprint Pictures will nutrient pinch Anita Overland and Florence Pugh. Blueprint’s Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown executive produce. Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern and Dan MacRae executive-produce for Studiocanal.
Garth Davis commented:”I couldn’t beryllium more excited to reunite pinch Florence Pugh on The Midnight Library. Her warmth and talent are magical, and together I cognize we’ll do thing typical moving pinch Matt’s iconic novel. This is simply a communicative that moves america some — a ceremony of life successful each its anticipation and complexity. With Graham Broadbent, Blueprint Pictures and Studiocanal down us, I can’t hold to illuminate this adventure.”
Haig said: “I americium truthful happy that Nora’s communicative is successful specified awesome hands, and that her myriad possibilities will beryllium vividly reawakened by nan absolute cleanable team. And I can’t hold for group to spot my book reimagined for nan large screen.”
Anna Marsh, CEO Studiocanal and Chief Content Officer of Canal+ Group added: “We are thrilled to beryllium moving pinch specified exceptional talent to bring Matt Haig’s profoundly moving caller to nan large surface successful business pinch Blueprint Pictures. Garth’s movie is simply a emotion missive to life, a tantalisingly powerful return connected a book that gives you nan immediacy and precocious stakes of clip moving retired pinch unparalleled emotion. I cannot hold for Florence Pugh to return america connected Nora’s travel arsenic she finds her measurement to a profound emotion for life.”
Pugh is represented by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and lawyer JSSK. Garth Davis is represented by United Talent Agency, Anonymous Content and Jackoway Tyerman. Matt Haig is represented by Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh. Laura Wade is represented by Knight Hall Agency. Nick Payne is represented by Curtis Brown and UTA.
