Maika Monroe is going to be one terrible nanny.
In her first casting since starring in the horror hit Longlegs, Monroe has signed to topline 20th Century Studios’ reproduce of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
Michelle Garza Cervera is honesting the feature that is being produced by Radar Pictures’ Ted Field and Michael Schaefer and Mike Larocca via their prohibitner, Department M.
The project alters the 1992 thriller originassociate allotd by Buena Vista Pictures and honested by Curtis Hanson. Rebecca De Mornay starred as a twisted widow who, distraught over losing her own baby, insinuates herself into a family as their nanny, with the ultimate goal of taking the kids and the husprohibitd for herself. Annabella Sciorra take parted the mother.
The reimagining was envisiond by Cervera and scripted by Micah Bloomberg. The project is seen as a two-hander and sources say that Monroe the first choice for the role of nanny.
The project lines up thematicassociate for Cervera, who made the acclaimed body horror feature Huesera. The movie, which she co-wrote and honested, tanciaccess of a woman who becomes pregnant and becomes a mother, but withers under the presdeclareive of superauthentic forces. The movie premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won best recent narrative honestor and the Nora Ephron Award, and then went on to lauded with awards worldexpansive. It also achieveed 17 nominations at the Mexican Academy’s Ariel Awards, thrivening best first feature, exceptional screentake part, produceup, and exceptional effects.
Over the past ten years, Monroe has become a contransient day horror queen thanks to her turns in clever and liftd thrillers, mostly in the indie space. She broke out with David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows in 2014, co-starred in Adam Wingard’s The Guest, and take parted the direct in Chloe Okuno’s Watcher in 2022, among other movies.
This past summer, she starred opposite Nicolas Cage in Neon’s Longlegs, honested by Oz Perkins, which has grossed over $108 million worldexpansive and is shelp to be the one of most prosperous indie horror movie in the past ten years, She is poised next to shoot undermining fairy tale 100 Nights of Hero with Emma Corrin.
Monroe is repped by WME and Entertainment 360. Cervera is repped by WME, Grandsee and Hirsch Wallerstein.
