Jessica Jones and Breaking Bad actor Krysten Ritter is reportedly set to star as the villain in a new Netflix film, Night Books.Directed by David Yarovesky (Brightburn) and adapted from JA White’s horror-fantasy kids book, the story follows Alex (Winslow Fegley), the film’s young protagonist obsessed with paranormal tales.After being captured by a witch in New York – played by Ritter, according to Deadline – Alex is introduced to fellow captive Yasmin and forced to tell a new scary story every night in order to survive.
Fegley and Lidya Jewett play the film’s two children.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert are also on board as producers, with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis adapting the.
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