NEW YORK, Feb 18 — Into the Water, Paula Hawkins’ latest psychological thriller, due out in May, is set to be made into a movie. Like The Girl on the Train — the author’s previous hit novel — the big-screen adaptation will be produced by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks.
After the huge success of The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins is set to release another nail-biting novel, called Into the Water, later this year.
Paula Hawkins’ second novel is once again set in the UK, in a small town through which a river runs. The town becomes a crime scene when a single mother and a teenage girl are found dead at the bottom of the river in the space of a few weeks. The investigation that follows dredges up all kinds of family secrets.
The big-screen version of Into the Water is to get the same production team, with DreamWorks, Jared Leboff and Marc Platt, who recently worked on La La Land. As yet, no director, actor or screenwriter has been chosen for the project.
Into the Water will land two years after The Girl on the Train, the British writer’s first book released under her own name. The Girl on the Train has proved a huge success since its release in January 2015, with 18 million copies sold worldwide — six million in the USA alone. Last October, the book was brought to the big screen with a movie starring Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux and Edgar Ramirez. The film grossed US$172.6 million (RM768.7 million) worldwide.
Into the Water is released May 2, 2017. — AFP-Relaxnews
