Joe Wright will direct The Woman in the Window, an adaptation of the best-selling thriller novel by A.J. Finn. Wright's last film Darkest Hour picked up six Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. Gary Oldman won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Winston Churchill in Wright's depiction of the dark days of World War 2 after Germany's invasion of France and Britain's isolation following the Dunkirk evacuation.

Long before Darkest Hour, Joe Wright established himself as a perennial Oscar contender making literary prestige films. His run began in 2005 with the Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice, which picked up four Oscar nominations including one for lead actress Keira Knightley. Wright reunited with Knightley for 2007's Atonement, based on the acclaimed Ian McEwan novel set during the Dunkirk siege. Atonement picked up seven Oscar nominations include one for Best Picture. Wright then changed course somewhat, directing the action thriller Hanna starring Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett, before returning to literary fare with Anna Karenina. Wright's low point came with 2015's critically maligned box office dud Pan.

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After enjoying a rebound success with Darkest Hour, Wright will next direct the thriller The Woman in the Window for Fox 2000 (via Variety). Pulitzer Prize winning August, Osage County author Tracy Letts will do the script, with Scott Rudin and Eli Bush producing.

A.J. Finn's novel The Woman in the Window may roughly be described as a female centered Rear Window. The story concerns Dr. Anna Fox, a reclusive woman who spends her days spying on her neighbors from her apartment in a New York brownstone. Like James Stewart's character in Hitchcock's classic Rear Window, Fox witnesses something that plunges her into a mystery. The novel was published in January and has already garnered huge buzz. Casting should be interesting, as the lead role sounds very juicy and intriguing. Perhaps another Joe Wright-Keira Knightley collaboration is in the offing?

In addition to The Woman in the Window, Wright has also signed on to direct Stoner starring Casey Affleck. Though the title makes it sound like a James Franco-Seth Rogen vehicle, Stoner is actually a cult novel about a farmer who becomes an academic and Forrest Gumps his way through the first half of the 20th Century. Both projects sound like Wright once again trying to break away from doing straightforward period films. Wright's prior attempts at going more off-beat have not necessarily clicked with audiences however. As Darkest Hour showed, Wright's true niche remains the traditional prestige period film. On top of its Oscar nods, Darkest Hour grossed $138 million worldwide on a reported $30 million budget.

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The Woman in the Window does not yet have a release date.

Source: Variety