Last month it was announced that Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright is set to helm an adaptation of A.J. Finn’s bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, and now comes word from Variety that Amy Adams (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals) has been cast in the lead role.
Adams will play Dr. Anna Fox, a reclusive “who spends her days holed in in her New York City brownstone, fortifying herself with too much wine, binge watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. In the Rear Window vein, Anna eventually witnesses something she shouldn’t while keeping tabs on the Russell family, the seemingly picture perfect clan that lives across the way.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Letts (August, Osage County) has written the script for the adaptation, while Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) and Eli Bush (Lady Bird) are producing.
Adams was most recently seen reprising the role of Lois Lane in last year’s Justice League. Next up is the TV adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects [watch the trailer here], as well as Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic Backseat, where she plays Lynne Cheney.
