‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Producer FirstGen Developing Feature Adaptation Of Laura Van Den Berg Novel ‘The Third Hotel’; Michelle Garza Cervera To Direct

EXCLUSIVE: FirstGen, a production company with credits including Mona Fastvold’s recent Searchlight flick The Testament of Ann Lee, is developing a feature adaptation of the novel The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg.

Michelle Garza Cervera has boarded to direct, with Isa Mazzei set to adapt the screenplay.

Published in 2018, The Third Hotel follows Clare, a recent widow who travels to Latin America weeks after her husband Richard’s mysterious death, driven by the need to understand her role in his early passing. Lost in a new, unfamiliar city, she spots a man in the street, and it’s not just someone who looks like Richard, it’s him in the flesh. What begins as a skeptical pursuit of Richard’s double quickly devolves into an all-consuming obsession, unraveling Clare’s grip on reality and pulling her into a liminal nightmare where she is suspended between the living and the dead.

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