Maika Monroe goes to be one unhealthy nanny.
In her first casting since starring within the horror hit Longlegs, Monroe has signed to topline 20th Century Studios’ remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
Michelle Garza Cervera is directing the function that’s being produced by Radar Photos’ Ted Discipline and Michael Schaefer and Mike Larocca by way of their banner, Division M.
The challenge adapts the 1992 thriller initially distributed by Buena Vista Photos and directed by Curtis Hanson. Rebecca De Mornay starred as a twisted widow who, distraught over shedding her personal child, insinuates herself right into a household as their nanny, with the last word aim of taking the youngsters and the husband for herself. Annabella Sciorra performed the mom.
The reimagining was conceived by Cervera and scripted by Micah Bloomberg. The challenge is seen as a two-hander and sources say that Monroe the primary alternative for the function of nanny.
Over the previous ten years, Monroe has change into a modern-day horror queen because of her turns in good and elevated thrillers, principally within the indie area. She broke out with David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows in 2014, co-starred in Adam Wingard’s The Visitor, and performed the lead in Chloe Okuno’s Watcher in 2022, amongst different films.
This previous summer season, she starred reverse Nicolas Cage in Neon’s Longlegs, directed by Oz Perkins, which has grossed over $108 million worldwide and is claimed to be the one in all most profitable indie horror film previously ten years.
Monroe, who’s poised subsequent to shoot subversive fairy story 100 Nights of Hero with Emma Corrin, is repped by WME and Leisure 360.