Joe Wright, director of Atonement and Darkest Hour, came onboard to add some flair, along with Tracy Letts in charge of adapting the book, and a stacked cast including Letts himself, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie, Brian Tyree Henry and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The novel it was based on, by AJ Finn, was part of the post-Gone Girl boom in domestic thrillers centred on fractured female protagonists, and after David Fincher’s adaptation became a smash, Fox hoped for a repeat success, nabbing the rights with speed. Ultimately what happened off screen has become far more interesting than what’s finally being dumped in front of us. Yet it has all the hallmarks of a classic cursed production – disastrous test screenings, frantic reshoots, a second writer brought in late, a swirling controversy, a frantic Netflix sale. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.It was a talk-of-the-town package – a starry cast attached to the adaptation of a blockbuster book with an acclaimed film-maker and a Tony-winning playwright bringing it to life. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one-and nothing-is what it seems.

But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble-and its shocking secrets are laid bare. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times. Īnna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening. Amazing.” -Gillian Flynnįor readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. #1 New York Times Bestseller – Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman – Available on Netflix on May 14, 2021

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