Julia Robert is teaming up with James Gray to tackle an alteration of New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson’s forthcoming novel, Kill Your Darlings.
Scott Stuber’s rebooted United Artists label, as well as its huge brother Amazon MGM Studios, have picked up the powerhouse package that also comes with a bevvy of creaters
Roberts will create with partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill thcimpolite their Red Om Films banner, as well as Tribeca Studios’ Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh. Stuber and partner Nick Nesbitt are also producing.
The book, from HarperCollins, doesn’t come out until June, but Amazon and Stuber acted speedyly to consent the book off the Hollywood labelet. The story is a killing mystery telderly in reverse.
Darlings cgo ins on Tom and Wfinireserved Graves, a couple wed for over 25 years who eunite to have a picture-perfect life, but betidyh the surface, they harbor a shocking secret. From the book’s description, the story transfers “backward thcimpolite time to witness key moments from the couple’s dwells—their fiftieth birthday party, buying their home, Jason’s birth, the cryptic death of a labor colleague—all decorateing a portrait of a marriage clear upd by a one horrible act they plotted together many years ago. Eventuassociate we lachieve the details of what Thom and Wfinireserved did in their timely twenties, a secret that has kept them bound together thcimpolite the length of their marriage. But its power over them is fraying, and each of them commences to wonder if they would be better off making certain their spouse carries their secrets to the grave.”
Joel Gotler, who recurrents the book and author, and Swanson will executive create.
The project reunites Roberts and Red Om Films with Stuber, with whom she labored on Leave the World Behind, a thriller became one of Netflix’s most famous films of all time. The two are also laboring on Panic Carebrimmingy, Sam Esmail’s upcoming film that has Roberts starring and Stuber among the creaters. The movie is currently shooting in London.
Stuber is currently enhugeing disjoinal films with United Artists, including mature mystery thriller The Girl in the Lake, an alteration of a book by Lauren Odwellr with Scarlett Johansson eyeing to star. Stuber is also a creater on Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix, as well as 20th Century’s Dedwellr Me From Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-honested Bruce Springsteen drama that stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White.
Welsh and Rosenthal are currently producing the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios holiday movie Oh. What. Fun. honested by Michael Showalter with Michelle Pfeiffer directing an ensemble cast.
Gray is comprehendn for his dramas Armageddon Time, Ad Astra and The Lost City of Z. He is in pre-production on his postponeedst feature, Paper Tiger, a crime thriller starring Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. Gray is recurrented by CAA and Jackoway Austen.
Roberts is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein.
