EXCLUSIVE: Follotriumphg the box office success of Sony’s It Ends With Us, Brandon Sklenar has set up his next high-profile alteration to star in. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in the Lionsgate alteration of The Hoemploymhelp. Paul Feig is set to honest the Hidden Pictures/ Feigco Entertainment production, with Rebecca Sonnenshine altering Freida McFincludeen’s novel.
In the film, Sweeney will apply Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a recent begin as a hoemploymhelp to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon lgets that the family’s secrets are far more hazardous than her own.
Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman will create. Carly Kleinbart Elter will supervise the project for Hidden Pictures. Feigco’s Feig and Laura Fischer are also producing. Sweeney and Seyfried serve as executive creaters alengthenedside Alex Young and McFincludeen.
The novel has been on the New York Times bestseller catalog for more than a year — 75 weeks and counting — and on the Amazon bestsellers catalog for 98 weeks and counting. It also has a enroll-fractureing 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 selderly more than 3.6 million copies in English and has been transdefercessitated into 40 languages.
Chelsea Kujawa and Erin Jones-Wesley are superviseing the movie for Lionsgate. Robert Melnik barachieved the deals for the studio.
Sklenar’s fractureout role came applying Spencer Dutton in the Yellowstone spinoff 1923 opposite Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. The role as the dashing hunter caught the eye of every exec in town, especipartner Sony, which rapidly cast him as Atlas in its alteration of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us.
That film became of the huge hits of the summer, grossing more than $340 million at worldwide box office.
Sklenar can next be seen starring in Christopher Landon’s Drop opposite Meghann Fahy, which debuts in spring 2025. He is reconshort-termed by WME, Jay Glazer at Neon Kite, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.