Annapurna and Plan B Are Teaming Up to Adapt THE SILENT PATIENT

Annapurna Pictures and Brad Pitt’s Plan B are going to be teaming up again after being behind the Oscar winners If Beale Street Could Talk and Vice. The new project will be an adaptation of The Silent Patient, the best-selling novel from Alex Michaelides. If you’re not familiar with the novel, here’s a synopsis:

The Silent Patient follows Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter married to a fashion photographer who enjoys life a the top of London society. Without explanation, Alicia shoots her husband Gabriel in the face five times when he returns late from work one evening, sparking an international scandal and subsequently sending the value of her art through the roof.

Sequestered in a North London police forensic unit, Alicia refuses to speak a word about the crime and her potential motives. When a criminal psychotherapist named Theo takes on her case, determined to get answers and unravel the mystery, his own motives send him down a dark path in search of the truth.

There’s no word on directors, writers, or cast, but this film sounds nuts. Have you read the book yet?

Source: Variety