New York Times Best Seller Adapted into Film Starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried

At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Sydney Sweeney — who, along with Amanda Seyfried, also serves as a producer — told audiences she finished all three “Housemaid” novels in under a week. “I could not put it down,” she said, praising its morally murky characters and propulsive pacing. 

Seyfried, reflecting on the “life-affirming and career-confirming” experience playing Nina Winchester, revealed: “I will never forget the way playing her made me feel. I got to go to places I never thought I’d go to.” She also teased, “The stuff that happened when the cameras were rolling was bananas for me,” which bodes well for us cinephiles. 

Steering the ship is director Paul Feig — best known for his experienced touch with comedy in projects like “Bridesmaids,” “Freaks And Geeks,” and “The Office.” He has, however, more recently gestured towards darker waters with films like “A Simple Favor.” As for author Freida McFadden herself: she’s a novelist preoccupied with psychological fiction, but she’s also a practicing physician specializing in brain injury. That she spends her time studying the mind by day, makes her ability to so deftly dismantle it on the page by night all the more tantalizing.