Actor Nicole Kidman will topline Mice, the feature film adaptation of author Gordon Reece’s debut novel.
According to entertainment news outlet Deadline, the film will be directed by Justin Kurzel from a script adapted by Shaun Grant. The two earlier worked on the Cannes-winning Nitramand and the upcoming TV series The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Mice, which was published in the US and the UK in 2011, follows Shelley and her mother who are pushed to their limits as they confront their moral convictions and the line between right and wrong in the face of bullying, violence and fear.
The team behind Kidman’s Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing — Blossom Films and Made Up Stories has created Mice.
Blossom Films’ Kidman and Made Up Stories’ principal Bruna Papandrea will produce alongside Blossom’s Per Saari, Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Jodi Matterson and Thirdborn’s Kurzel and Grant. Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories will executive produce with Thirdborn’s O’Donohue and Harriet Warner.
Kidman is currently awaiting the release of her latest series Expats.