She’ll be driftin’.
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After a run of gigantic mainstream hits, together with Stranger Issues and Spider-Man: Model New Day, Sadie Sink is returning to the status properly. Sink is in negotiations to star in an upcoming adaptation of Emma Cline’s hit ebook The Visitor, per Deadline. The actress, who additionally starred in The Whale with Oscar winner Brendan Fraser and scored a Tony nomination for her work in John Proctor Is the Villain, would play the titular visitor, a.ok.a. Alex. A younger girl who will get kicked out of her older boyfriend’s home within the Hamptons, Alex spends the story drifting across the rich neighborhood. The novel, which was the unofficial ebook of the summer season in 2023, follows her as she floats by way of the bougie seashore city looking for a spot to sleep every night time and a celebration to attend.
If every little thing pans out, this upcoming movie adaptation will probably be written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, greatest recognized for her Emmy-nominated work on Succession and for the Christmas film Hustlers. Sink and Scafaria planning to make the film with A24 and Sq. Peg Productions, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s firm, which not too long ago produced Bugonia and The Drama. Deadline reported that there have been a dozen different potential consumers earlier than this package deal prevailed, which suggests A24 and Sq. Peg are actually in “unique negotiations” for the rights. Between Scafaria’s bona fides in depicting each scammers and the ultra-rich and Sink’s latest Spider-Man success, it’s not surprising they gained out. We welcome The Visitor.
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