You have seen the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl on screen. Now in another adaptation of a Gillian Flynn novel, Dark Places, Charlize Theron brings Libby Day to life.
As previously learned in 2013, Charlize Theron would star in and produce Dark Places. She is portraying Libby Day, whose entire family was murdered in the 1980s and has dealt with this burden all her life.
Libby’s older brother Ben (played as an adult by Corey Stoll) was incarcerated for the murders and Libby has remained certain of his guilt until she gets in with a secret society called the “Kill Club” which includes a character played by Nicholas Hoult. She starts questioning her past. The story has flashbacks of events leading up to the murders.
Libby looks back on the past and examines Ben’s youth when they were younger. She starts searching for the real killer. Christina Hendricks plays Libby and Ben’s mother Patty. Chloe Grace Moretz plays Diondra.
The film is directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key, Walled in) and it promises to deliver twists and turns like Flynn’s Gone Girl.
You’ll notice that the trailer has French subtitles. There is no U.S. release date for the film yet, but it opens in France April 8
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