Florence Pugh To Star In & Produce Matt Haig Adaptation ‘The Midnight Library’ With Garth Davis Directing; Studiocanal Launches For Cannes Market

Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune franchise) is set to star in and produce fantasy drama The Midnight Library, which will be directed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis, we can reveal.

In the big-budget “love letter to life,” Pugh per the logline will play Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.

Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are behind the project, which the former is launching for the Cannes market. The regular collaborators optioned Matt Haig’s popular novel, which has a screenplay by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade (Rivals) and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time).

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