HBO Max and Emma Stone are working together to develop an adaptation of Stacy Willingham‘s upcoming novel A Flicker in the Dark.
Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone‘s new-founded production company, Fruit Tree, and A24 will join forces with HBO Max for the upcoming adaptation, Variety reports. Emma Stone co-founded Fruit Tree alongside Dave McCary, and they signed a first-look deal with A24 in 2020.
A Flicker in the Dark is Stacy Willingham’s debut novel, slated for publication in January 2022. The rights have also been sold into 17 foreign countries to date. The lyrical thriller follows Chloe Davis, a psychologist, in whose hometown six girls went missing when she was twelve. The twist is, they arrested her father and called him a serial killer. Now, twenty years later as she’s getting ready for her wedding, teenage girls begin to go missing. Her life begins to unravel, and Davis starts asking whether she is paranoid, or will she uncover the real serial killer?
Compared to the likes of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter, Willingham’s debut novel has a lot of potential. With a rating of 4.22 on Goodreads from ARC reviews, the novel doesn’t need much to get famous.
Having Emma Stone in the adaptation for A Flicker in the Dark marks the perfect debut any writer dreams of. She will start alongside Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, with Morgan Gould adapting the novel for the small screen.
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