EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have taken rights to Freida McFadden‘s No. 1 New York Instances bestselling psychological thriller, The Tenant.
The Tenant follows Blake Porter, a advertising govt whose life spirals after dropping his job and struggling to make mortgage funds on his brownstone. When he takes within the seemingly excellent tenant Whitney, he discovers that hazard lives nearer to house than he ever imagined, as neighbors flip hostile, mysterious odors plague his home, and somebody seems to know his darkest secrets and techniques. The novel, revealed by Sourcebooks’ Poisoned Pen Press, explores themes of revenge, privilege, and the lethal penalties when secrets and techniques flip bitter.
The novel has held the spot on the NYT bestseller record for seven consecutive weeks.
UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce the movie adaptation together with Molly Sims of One thing Pleased Productions.
McFadden will govt produce.
SVP Olivia Heighten and Director of Improvement Annie McCreery, who introduced the undertaking in, will oversee for UA. Gaby McCormick will oversee the undertaking on behalf of One thing Pleased Productions.
McFadden is a doctor who has penned a number of bestselling psychological thrillers, together with, The Housemaid collection, the primary novel tailored right into a Lionsgate function directed by Paul Feig and starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. That pic hits theaters on Christmas Day.
Different upcoming tasks from Stuber embrace Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix, and Ship Me from Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed drama that stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen when the enduring singer hit an existential crossroads and turned it into the seminal album Nebraska, for twentieth Century Studios and Disney. Each movies are popping out this fall.
Current credit from One thing Pleased Productions embrace Kinda Pregnant starring Amy Schumer and Will Forte (Netflix, co-produced with Adam Sandler’s Pleased Madison), the upcoming The Final Mrs. Parrish, starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Robert Zemeckis (Netflix), and the upcoming None of That is True (Netflix).
McFadden is represented by Angela Cheng Caplan of Cheng Caplan Firm, Inc., Christina Hogrebe at Jane Rotrosen Company, Allison Binder of GGSSC and Sims at Linden Leisure, UTA and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.
