Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn is going to test her new screenwriting skills on a new project that isn’t based on a book she wrote. She’s agreed to co-write Widows, a new film 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen has been working on.
The project will reunite Flynn with New Regency, which financed Gone Girl and 12 Years. According to Deadline, which first reported the news, she will co-write the script with McQueen.
Widows, which McQueen began work on in November 2014, is based on a U.K. miniseries written by Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect). It centers on the widows of four robbers who hope to finish their husbands’ plans. No casting is set yet.
Widows will be produced by See-Saw Films’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman.
McQueen is currently working with HBO on Codes of Conduct, which Flynn is working with Gone Girl director on Utopia, also on HBO. Coincidentally, Utopia is also based on a U.K. series.
As for New Regency, the studio co-financed the last two Best Picture winners: 12 Years and Birdman. Both films were distributed by Fox Searchlight. It is expected to be in the Oscar race again with Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant.
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