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Night Film by Marisha Pessl5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out her father is a reclusive horror filmmaker who hasn’t been seen in thirty years, and that somehow leads McGrath to think that the daughter’s murder was in revenge. Night Film, which was just published on August 20 by Random House, centers on an investigative journalist named Scott McGrath who probes into the suicide of a young woman because he thinks someone else was at fault for her death. ![]() It stands to reason he’s a good fit for any screenwriter, so the scary ball is in Aguirre-Sacasa’s horror court, or something. For both of those films, he worked with screenwriters who only had one or two films produced, and turned both of those scripts into something memorable. Night Film is set to be directed by Rupert Wyatt, who pleased audiences with the Brian Cox-led crime drama The Escapist, and the surprisingly awesome “James Franco plays with monkeys” thriller Rise of the Planet of the Apes. ![]()
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