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The Florence Pugh-led $70 million budget fantasy drama “The Midnight Library” is looking to have the biggest deal of the Cannes market this year.
Paramount, Focus and Sony are reportedly in the mix for domestic and select international markets, while producer-financier Studiocanal will hold onto it in its own territories, including UK, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Aftica. Blueprint Pictures is also backing the project.
The deal is expected to push past the $30 million mark, which will beat Park Chan-wook’s western “The Brigands Of Rattlecreek” as the biggest domestic deal of the fest, and past the low $20 million deal for the Jonathan Bailey-led cycling drama “Pumping Black”.
“Lion” filmmaker Garth Davis will direct the feature based on Matt Haig’s 2020 novel, which has sold 15 million copies, and has been adapted for the screen by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade (“Rivals”) and Tony nominee Nick Payne (“We Live In Time”).
Pugh will star as Nora Seed, a woman who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
The project will enter pre-production this Fall ahead of filming at the start of 2027.
Source: Deadline
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