Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Annapurna Pictures has won an auction and landed the rights to Rachel Yoder’s upcoming debut novel Nightbitch.
The novel will be developed as a star vehicle for six-time Oscar nominated actress Amy Adams.The author will adapt the novel and will be executive producer alongside Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, and Sammy Scher for Annapurna.
Adams and Stacy O’Neil will produce through Bond Group Entertainment.Exposing the absurd and feral truths of motherhood, Nightbitch is a darkly comedic telling of an unnamed woman and former artist, thrust into stay-at-home domesticity after the birth of her son, who becomes increasingly worried and convinced that she may be turning into a dog.
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