Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, Anyone But You) and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls) have signed on to star in the Hidden Pictures thriller The Housemaid, with the studio tapping Paul Feig to direct. The screenplay is written by Rebecca Sonnenshine, based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden.
Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman will produce, and the company’s Carly Kleinbart Elter will oversee the project. Feigco’s Feig and Laura Fischer are also producing. Sweeney and Seyfried will serve as executive producers alongside Alex Young and McFadden.
In the film, Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew, an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.
The novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, 75 weeks and counting, and on the Amazon bestsellers list for 98 weeks and counting.
It also has a record-breaking half-billion pages read on Kindle and is the No. 2 most-read title for Kindle’s 10th anniversary behind only the Harry Potter series. It has sold more then 3.6 million copies in English has been translated into 40 languages.
Stay tuned for more information on the project as it develops.
via: Deadline
