Shawn Levy is an in-demand talent in Hollywood, and now he’s lined up a thrilling new thriller to follow Deadpool & Wolverine.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Netflix has acquired the rights to Never Lie, based on the bestseller by author Freida McFadden, in collaboration with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment. Levy will produce along with partners Dan Levine and Dan Cohen.
Never Lie follows a newlywed couple on the search for the house of their dreams when they come upon a remote manor that once belonged to a renowned psychiatrist, a woman who vanished four years earlier. Trapped at the estate due to an intense blizzard, the wife happens upon a secret room containing audio tapes of the psychiatrist’s interviews with her patients, discovering one session is with a sociopath who sounds scarily familiar to her.
Per THR, Never Lie spent 11 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, USA Today’s Best-selling Books Top 150 list, and 23 consecutive weeks on Publisher Weekly’s bestseller list.
The author, Freida McFadden, currently has six books in Amazon’s top 20 chart of bestsellers for the week of July 21.
We are seeing the filmmaker come off quite a stellar few weeks; Levy just led Deadpool & Wolverine to a record-shattering opening, grossing over $211 million in its opening weekend. The new Marvel Studios production also became the best R-rated Monday ever for a movie at the domestic box office, earning another $24 million.
There’s no set production or release date set for the film.
