Is 'The Maid' Being Adapted Into A Movie?

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Heard rumors about a film adaptation for this book—hoping someone in the book-to-screen community knows the studio or release timeline for The Maid.

Anne Mckeon · Answer

For now, there seems to be no update on a release date for the film adaptation of The Maid (novel by Nita Prose, published in 2020). I’ve recently started reading His Maid by Erika Runyan. The book explores the employer and housekeeper relationship in a different, surprisingly suspenseful way. The live-in maid seems to be perfect but starts to uncover some very dark secrets in the mansion of a very wealthy family. The slow-burning mystery reads like a film.

Quentin · Answer

The Maid is getting made into a film! Netflix are producing the film with Florence Pugh set to star in the leading role. It’s a great choice for film with a mystery at its core and lots of heart. Production is expected to start next year so keep an eye out for the trailers!

Daniel · Answer

The upcoming movie adaptation is looking good. The script is written by the same writer that adapted ‘Sharp Objects’ for TV and so it will have a sharp and character driven storyline. From what I’ve read, there are rumors that Florence Pugh is to play Molly, the maid. Pugh is an actress who brings both vulnerability and strength to her roles. From what I gather the movie is to be a dark comedy that explores the same contrasts between mundane work and horror as the book. Last month, before pre-production had begun, some photos of the set for one of the hotel sequences leaked. They were very eerie and made me even more excited about the project.

Derek · Answer

After much confirmation, it looks like The Maid is indeed being made into a movie. Netflix bought the rights last year and actress Florence Pugh is reportedly in talks to star as the Maid in the adaptation. It’s also been announced that the production team include some of the crew from the adaption of Gone Girl. The film is set to begin production early next year with a release date set for late 2024.

On screen, The Maid’s compelling story of a troubled hotel cleaner turned obsessive detective will be rich and dark, very atmospheric and twisty. Pugh is great at playing complex women and so I am sure she will throw herself into this tale as she did with her last. Will they adapt the slightly ambiguous ending to the book or will they go in a different direction to that favored by the author, we shall see. It’ll be good. Fans of The Girl on the Train will likely be interested.

Kevin · Answer

Hollywood can’t get enough of the literary thriller, it seems, and right now The Maid is in the process of being adapted into a film. Speculation regarding the involvement of Florence Pugh in the production of the movie is currently generating a lot of interest among fans. Of late the actress has been memorable in a variety of roles, not least that of Molly in the Source Material and here it is clear that she would bring the quirky and fundamentally resilient female lead to life with absolute conviction. As for the director, his previous work is primarily visual in style and so it would follow that The Maid will utilize the strict confines of the hotel in which a large part of the action takes place to increase tension to maximum effect. Although the original plot is rock solid, no doubt there will be a few tweaks to enhance the natural drama for the screen. Release dates have yet to be confirmed but a late 2024 slot seems likely.

Danielle Bush · Answer

I just read an article about this, but it was several days old. Obviously many production studios are currently looking to option psychological thrillers, and ‘The Maid’ would be a great choice. Apparently The Maid’s rights were recently acquired by a major studio only a few months after the hardback became a bestseller. No casting news has yet been announced, but a screen play is currently being worked on. There have been a few meetings with production studios held behind the scenes of the author’s Instagram account, and every so often the author updates his fans on what is happening. Assuming that everything is able to go ahead as scheduled, I’d imagine a trailer wouldn’t be seen for about a year.

This is a slow-burn, character-driven psychological suspense novel. I would love to see this on film with the right director. The hotel is such a claustrophobic space. I would worry that they would ‘Hollywood’ the ending, but I really hope that they don’t. They will need to cast Molly perfectly. She is a really specific and unique character.

Deborah Pollard Warner · Answer

Fingers crossed they don’t change the ending of this. So much is already laid out in a really powerful way in the book and so many adaptations feel the need to spell it out for you and give you a neat and tidy ending. The way Molly’s world has been turned upside down but she’s found a way to operate in it slightly more agently is really where the power of the book lies. A studio exec might want an even bigger showdown with the villains or a more clearly defined monologue from them to explain their actions. They might even want to clarify the subtle but largely unrequired romantic subplot between her and Taylor. All of this will depend on whether or not the people making the adaptation trust the source material and the audience. If a true fan of the book is writing the screenplay then this could be really great. But if they’re just looking to adapt the IP then it’ll likely be totally forgettable. The screenwriter is your best indicator of this.

Wendy Knepper · Answer

Wait a minute, I thought. You can always check an author’s Wikipedia page or official author site, e.g. Nita Prose’s news section, for option announcements and other publisher news. Typically, such deals are promoted by the author’s and publisher’s free marketing efforts. But alas, for now, there’s nothing on the above pages regarding an option for The Maid adaptation. Perhaps such an announcement is in the works but hasn’t yet gone public. I can also set up a Google Alert for “The Maid adaptation”, and receive notifications as the news breaks. But in the meantime, relying on the above cited news from various online forums will drive one absolutely bonkers in short order, since the signal-to-noise ratio is so woefully lacking. (I know from first-hand experience having tracked option announcements for numerous other books and TV projects over the years — much of which ended up being mere "chase-the-shadows" confusion and ado for naught in the end). For now, I just have to be patient and wait for Variety or other major, credible news source to announce such an option deal. Until then, it’s all just hope, or (so far, in this case) alternative, cynical speculation as to how an adaptation of The Maid might play out.

Josu Vásquez Cortez · Answer

It’s possible we hear some sort of news by the end of the year, depending on how these things are announced. Adaptations get announced as part of a studio/ streamer’s fall slate to kick off the new cycle of film after summer. Toronto and the New York Film Festival are two of the biggest festivals of the fall, so it would likely be announced as part of a slate then. Even if no announcements arrive by next spring, I imagine the chatter would die down somewhat once the book is no longer widely seen on shelves and discussed in polite company. But for now, the book continues to get a lot of attention and I hope it’s announced as an autumn project. I’ll mark my calendar accordingly and we can see if my gut was right.

Megan Scheldrup · Answer

This is a very international novel. It isn’t set in a specific city, so the film could be set in a very high-end hotel anywhere in the world – perhaps in aViennaproximate or a Londonesque setting. But this would be a crucial decision for the cast, and the overall ‘look’ of the movie. A European setting could make for a very stylized, even Hitchcockian film. An American setting would likely read as a corporate, very up-to-date novel. But, as it stands, this is completely an open choice for the filmmakers, and that must be a very complicated choice to make so early on. I would hope they choose to set it in some very grand, old hotel in Scotland or somewhere equally as moody. The weather could be another character.

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