Looking to jump on the bandwagon – or maybe the bookshelf – of novel adaptations such as Gone Girl, DreamWorks is turning to director Tate Taylor to help bring Paula Hawkins’ thriller tome The Girl On The Train to cinemas{
Taylor is no stranger to novel adaptations – he made The Help into a huge, Oscar-winning hit for DreamWorks and more recently directed James Brown biopic Get On Up.
Hawkins’ novel follows a recently divorced woman struggling with her life and sinking into alcoholism to try to cope. She sees a seemingly perfect couple from her London train ride every day and starts to fantasize about their lives. But things take a turn when she returns home covered in blood after a blackout drunk spree, and may have become intertwined with their lives...
With roughly two million copies of the tome sold so far, it’s easy to see why DreamWorks might see the potential in this one, with Secretary/Men, Women & Children writer Erin Cressida Wilson at work on the adaptation.
It’s early days for the thriller, which is still in the development station and the eventual film may end up transposing the setting to, say, New York, but DreamWorks will no doubt want it on screens as soon as possible to capitalise on the book’s success.