Annapurna, Plan B to Adapt Fashion Murder Thriller ‘The Silent Patient’

Hot off their Indie Spirit Award win for best feature for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Annapurna and Plan B have set their next film project with an adaptation of Alex Michaelides’ best-selling novel “The Silent Patient.”As part of their three-year production pact, the companies have optioned the rights to the novel published under Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan.“The Silent Patient” follows Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter married to a fashion photographer who enjoys life a the top of London society.

Without explanation, Alicia shoots her husband Gabriel in the face five times when he returns late from work one evening, sparking an international scandal and subsequently sending the value of her art through the roof.Sequestered in a North London police forensic unit, Alicia refuses to speak a word about the crime and her potential motives.

When a criminal psychotherapist named Theo takes on her case,

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