{"id":953041,"date":"2026-05-11T17:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:14:17","slug":"florence-pugh-to-star-in-the-midnight-library-movie-based-on-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953041\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh To Star In \u2018The Midnight Library\u2019 Movie Based On Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOscar nominee Florence Pugh<\/a> (Dune franchise) is set to star in and produce fantasy drama The Midnight Library<\/a>, which will be directed by Lion filmmaker Garth Davis, we can reveal.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the big-budget \u201clove letter to life,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tStudiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are behind the project, which the former is launching for the Cannes<\/a> market. The regular collaborators optioned Matt Haig\u2019s popular novel, which has a screenplay by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade\u00a0(Rivals)\u00a0and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time).<\/p>\n

\n\tHaig will executive produce. First published by Canongate in 2020, the book has sold 15 million copies and has been translated into 56 languages.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe plan is for the project to enter pre-production this fall with shoot at the start of 2027.\u00a0Studiocanal will release theatrically across their territory footprint of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia and New Zealand. It\u2019s the biggest-budget project the Euro studio has mounted in some time.<\/p>\n

\n\tGraham Broadbent and Pete Czernin of Blueprint will produce with Anita Overland and Pugh. Blueprint\u2019s\u00a0Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown executive produce. Anna Marsh,\u00a0Ron Halpern and Dan MacRae executive produce for Studiocanal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more\u00a0excited\u00a0to reunite with Florence Pugh on\u00a0The Midnight\u00a0Library,\u201d Davis said. \u201cHer\u00a0warmth and talent are magical, and together I know we\u2019ll do something special working with Matt\u2019s\u00a0iconic\u00a0novel. This is a story that moves us both \u2014 a celebration of life in all its possibility and complexity. With Graham Broadbent, Blueprint Pictures and Studiocanal behind us, I can\u2019t wait to illuminate this adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHaig\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cI am so happy that Nora\u2019s story is in such great hands, and that her myriad possibilities\u00a0will be vividly reawakened\u00a0by the absolute perfect team. And I can\u2019t wait for people to see my book reimagined for the big screen.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnna Marsh, CEO Studiocanal and Chief Content Officer of Canal+ Group,\u00a0added:\u00a0\u201cWe are thrilled to be working with such exceptional talent to bring Matt Haig\u2019s deeply moving novel to the big screen in partnership with Blueprint Pictures. Garth\u2019s film is a love letter to life, a tantalizingly powerful take on a script that gives you the immediacy and high stakes of time running out with unparalleled emotion. I cannot wait for Florence Pugh to take us on Nora\u2019s journey as she finds her way to a profound love for life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPugh is represented by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and attorney JSSK. Davis is represented by\u00a0UTA, Anonymous Content and Jackoway Tyerman. Haig\u00a0is represented by Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh. Wade is\u00a0represented by Knight Hall Agency. Payne is represented by Curtis Brown and UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune franchise) is set to star in and produce fantasy drama The Midnight Library,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[5839,258510,4080,77,16797,265982,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-953041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cannes","9":"tag-cannes-market","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-florence-pugh","13":"tag-the-midnight-library","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116557071689969317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}