Florence Pugh to Star in and Produce "The Midnight Library" Film Adaptation

Oscar nominee Florence Pugh is set to star in and produce the feature adaptation of Matt Haig’s popular novel "The Midnight Library," from Lion filmmaker Garth Davis.

In the big-budget “love letter to life,” Pugh will play Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.

Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are behind the project, which the former is launching for the Cannes market.

The regular collaborators optioned Matt Haig’s popular novel, which has a screenplay by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade (Rivals) and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time).

Haig will executive produce. First published by Canongate in 2020, the book has sold 15 million copies and has been translated into 56 languages.

The plan is for the project to enter pre-production this fall with filming commencing at the start of 2027.

Studiocanal will release theatrically across their territory footprint of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, and New Zealand. It’s the biggest-budget project the Euro studio has mounted in some time.

Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin of Blueprint will produce with Anita Overland and Pugh.

Blueprint’s Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown executive produce. Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, and Dan MacRae executive produce for Studiocanal.