Lionsgate has acquired Paul Feig’s “The Housemaid,” with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried attached to star in the thriller. The screenplay is by Rebecca Sonnenshine, based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden.
In the film, Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling young woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew, an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.
The source material, which turned McFadden into one hot author, has been on the New York Times Bestseller List for 75 weeks and counting. It has sold more than 3.6M copies worldwide in English has been translated into 40 languages.
I don’t mind Feig’s comedies, he’s the filmmaker behind “Bridesmaids,” “The Heat” “A Simple Favor” and “Spy,” but he really made a good film in almost 10 years and his last three films (“Last Christmas,” “The School of Good and Evil,” “Jackpot”) were critically panned. We should also not forget that Feig is responsible for the all-female “Ghostbusters” from 2016.
The film had actually wrapped its six-month production in January 2026, and it’s been in post-production for the last eight months. Fincher is well known for taking his time in the editing room.