Amy Adams’ Comedic Horror ‘Nightbitch’ Heads to Searchlight With Marielle Heller to Write and Direct
thewrap.comdates back to 2020 when Bond Group and Annapurna acquired the rights to the film and developed the screenplay with Heller. Heller and Adams will also produce the film along with Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Stacy O’Neil, Christina Oh, Adam Paulsen and Sue Naegle.
Sammy Scher and Havilah Brewster are executive producing. Heller and Brewster will produce via their Defiant By Nature production banner, Adams and O’Neil are producing via their Bond Group production banner, and Carey is producing via her Archer Gray production banner.
Archer Gray also previously produced Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me” and her debut “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” “We are long-time admirers of Amy Adams, and we are thrilled to join with Annapurna and this incredibly creative team of filmmakers to bring this unique story to the screen,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield said in a statement. “We’re also delighted to reunite with Mari Heller and Anne Carey again following the collaboration on ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Mari has brilliantly adapted Rachel Yoder’s stunning debut for what promises to be a provocative film.”“Rachel Yoder‘s book took my breath away.
I haven’t felt this way about it book since I read ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ many years ago,” Heller said. “Rachel’s darkly hilarious tale of motherhood and rage made me feel seen.
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