The 'Gone Girl' author and the '12 Years a Slave' director will write New Regency's 'Widows' which McQueen will also direct.
- March 28, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen are set to join forces for New Regency's upcoming movie "Widows". The "Gone Girl" author has been tapped to join the Academy Award-nominated director to co-write the heist thriller, Deadline reports.
The movie is said to be McQueen's next directing project. The story begins when three armed robbers are killed during a robbery. Their surviving widows then come together and enlist the help of a fourth woman to try to finish the failed job. At the same time, they discover there was a "fourth man" in the raid.
It's based on a British miniseries of the same name which aired in 1983. It was remade for U.S. market in 2002 with Mercedes Ruehl, Brooke Shields, Rosie Perez, and N'Bushe Wright among the cast ensemble.
McQueen, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman will produce the upcoming film.
Flynn wrote the script for the "Gone Girl" movie adaptation, for which she earned a bunch of nominations and prizes at award-giving events. McQueen, meanwhile, won an Academy Award as producer of historical drama "12 Years a Slave" which he also directed. New Regency produced both "Gone Girl" and "12 Years a Slave".
