The Midnight Library | Adaptation to star Florence Pugh, will begin filming in 2027

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An adaptation of best-selling novel The Midnight Library is finally going ahead, with Florence Pugh to star and shooting set to begin next year. Update: Blimey, here’s a production we haven’t heard much about for a while – almost six years in fact. But while nobody was looking, StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures have quietly been ... The Midnight Library | Adaptation to star Florence Pugh, will begin filming in 2027

An adaptation of best-selling novel The Midnight Library is finally going ahead, with Florence Pugh to star and shooting set to begin next year.

Update: Blimey, here’s a production we haven’t heard much about for a while – almost six years in fact. But while nobody was looking, StudioCanal and Blueprint Pictures have quietly been cracking on with an adaptation of author Matt Haig’s fantasy novel, The Midnight Library.

The project now has a director and star attached: in the former role we have Garth Davis, who previously made Lion and Foe, and in the latter, the versatile actor Florence Pugh. That’s quite a package, and StudioCanal will now be shopping it around at Cannes for potential backers.

Deadline writes that there are plans to start filming at the start of 2027, while the finished fantasy will get a cinema roll-out. The book sold has sold 15 million copies since it was published in 2020, and it’s thought that the story – about a woman experiencing all of her life’s untravelled paths – will be given the big-budget treatment it needs.

We’ll bring you more as we get it.

Our original story follows…

23rd September 2020: As the book heads to the top of the bestseller list, StudioCanal has picked up the movie rights to Matt Haig’s latest novel, The Midnight Library.

It tells the story of Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library at a moment between life and death. Then, she can experience all the different lives that she could have had, with the consequences that come with them.

It’s the latest of Haig’s books to be picked up for the screen by StudioCanal, with the company also holding an option on How To Stop Time and A Boy Called Christmas, the latter of which is in post production now.

Haig, in the official press announcement, said that “I am so excited that The Midnight Library film is in the best hands. Having worked with Blueprint and StudioCanal before, it was a no-brainer the moment they offered. I can’t wait to see Nora’s adventures through the multiverse translated to screen”.

Blueprint Pictures is the company that’s making the film with StudioCanal, to be clear.