Amanda Seyfried to lead 'You Should Have Left'
Supernatural thriller "You Should Have Left" has found its lead, Amanda Seyfried of "Les Miserables" and "Twin Peaks" season three.
Joining Kevin Bacon in Blumhouse Productions thriller "You Should Have Left" will be Amanda Seyfried, who has "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" in the can and is currently working on comedy drama "The Art of Racing in the Rain."
Seyfried joins the production to play the younger wife of a wealthy man.
"Mistrust and suspicion characterize their marriage while they are in a remote location that may or may not be obeying all the physical laws of the universe," according to Blumhouse.
The film is based on a novel by Daniel Kehlmann, in which a screenwriter, his wife and their four-year-old daughter stay in a house in the mountains of Germany.
It's the house and its contents that appear to be functioning according to unnatural laws, its rooms changing location and even his notebook containing words that the writer did not put there.
Kehlman's novel was published in English in 2017, with a paperback edition set for June 12, 2018.
David Koepp picked it up on a recommendation from Bacon, authoring the screenplay and installing himself as director on the horror project.
Koepp is best known for adapting "Jurassic Park" and "Carlito's Way."
He wrote the 2002 "Spider-Man" film, as well as entries to the "Mission Impossible," "Indiana Jones," and "Da Vinci Code" franchises.
His previously directed films were Kevin Bacon horror "Stir of Echoes," Johnny Depp movies "Secret Window" and "Mortdecai," Ricky Gervais fantasy "Ghost Town," Joseph Gordon-Levitt bicycle courier thriller "Premium Rush," and dramatic thriller "The Trigger Effect" starring Elisabeth Shue and, in another "Twin Peaks" connection, Kyle MacLachlan; all but "Mortdecai" netted him additional screenwriting credits.
