Really excited to announce Plan B and Annapurna are developing #TheSilentPatient as a movie. Other recent collaborations between Annapurna and Plan B have included If Beale Street Could Talk and Vice. Brad Pitt is listed as a producer for The Silent Patient. Plan B previously produced Oscar-winning titles such as 12 Years A Slave and Moonlight and is run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. From Annapurna, Sue Naegle and Ivana Lombardi will oversee the project. So now I tend to be very adaptable, and I don’t have any ego about taking “The Silent Patient” apart and putting it together in a completely different way for a different medium.” Who’s behind it?Īnnapurna and Plan B will be teaming up for the Silent Patient adaptation as part of a 3-year producing pact they signed in 2017. Michaelides states that, “When I was a young writer, I wasn’t flexible. In an interview in December 2019, author Alex Michaelides discusses the importance of being “flexible” in the adaptation process, indicating that they’re likely going to be retooling the story a little when it jumps from book to film. What format will it be? Will the Silent Patient adaptation be a Movie or a Series? The Silent Patient was released in February 2019 and has been on the bestseller charts ever since. The result was a huge bidding war for his debut novel, The Silent Patient. At that point, Michaelides finally decided to try his hand at a novel. Michaelides previously wrote the screenplays for The Devil You Know (2013) and The Con is On (2018), though they were not particularly well-received projects. See the full summary and review of The Silent Patient on The Bibliofile. Theo Faber is a psychologist who takes on the her case to understand what happened that night and why she is unable or unwilling to speak.

In the years after the shooting, Alicia paints only one painting, which is a self portrait entitled “Alcestis,” named after a Greek heroine who returns from the dead, but never speaks again. In The Silent Patient, a well known artist, Alicia Berenson, has been in a psychiatric hospital for years after she shoots her husband and has not spoken a word since. The Silent Patient is a twisty and exciting mystery-thriller by former screenwriter Alex Michaelides.

Here’s what we know about this mystery novel’s jump to film so far: What’s it about? What’s the plot? The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, a psychological thriller released in February 2019, has a movie adaptation in the works. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jul 30th, 2019 (Last Updated Jun 29th, 2021)

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