StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures, the U.K. production company behind Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and recent Jane Austen adaptation Emma, have reteamed to option the film rights to Matt Haig's Sunday Times bestseller The Midnight Library.
Haig's seventh adult novel and first since 2017's How to Stop Time (which StudioCanal also has under option) tells the story of Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death, with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
The Midnight Library has sold into 25 territories worldwide, and the audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan. Haig will executive produce the film, now in early development. "I am so excited that The Midnight Library film is in.
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