Emily Blunt Set to Be The Girl on the Train
Chuntering along like its titular train, things are gathering speed for the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ thriller novel The Girl on the Train, with Emily Blunt in talks to play the lead.
The novel follows a recently divorced woman called Rachel struggling with her life and sinking into alcoholism to try to cope. She sees a seemingly perfect couple from her London train ride every day and starts to fantasize about their lives. But things take a turn when she returns home covered in blood after a blackout drunk spree, and may have become intertwined with their lives...
It’s the kind of multi-million selling novel sold at train stations that makes everyone think twice about sitting next to you in a busy carriage.
Empire reports that Dreamworks is looking at Fantastic Four’s Kate Mara for one of the other major roles. Secretary/Men, Women & Children writer Erin Cressida Wilson is at work on the adaptation.
Blunt, last seen in Into the Woods, will be back on screens for crime drama Sicario, out in the UK on 25th September.