Mila Kunis To Star And Produce Adaptation Of ‘Nightwatching’ From Scott Free, Picturestart And Fifth Season

EXCLUSIVE: Mila Kunis is set to star in and produce Nightwatching, based on Tracy Sierra’s debut novel, from directors Adam Schindler and Brian Netto. Laura Moss and Brendan J. O’Brien wrote the original screenplay with a current draft by TJ Cimfel and David White.

The film, which will be distributed internationally by Amazon MGM Studios, will be produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, and Sam Roston for Scott Free Productions, Erik Feig, Jessica Switch and Emily Wissink for Picturestart and Kunis and Lisa Sterbakov for Kunis’ newly branded production company, Brick for Sheep. Roston and Avital Siegel will oversee production for Scott Free. Production will begin at the end of January as part of the California tax incentive program.

Graham Taylor and Christopher Slager will executive produce for Fifth Season, who is also financing the film. Justin Alvarado Brown will executive produce for Scott Free.

The novel, which won the Spring 2024 Jimmy Fallon Book Club, follows Lee, a mother who, during a relentless winter storm, wakes to an intruder in her home. In a single instant, what should have been an ordinary night unravels into a fight for survival. As she struggles to protect her children, she’s drawn into a harrowing game of doubt and danger, one that leaves her questioning not only who has entered her home, but what they truly want. Nightwatching is a tense and atmospheric thriller that explores the razor-thin line between safety and terror, and how far a parent will go when darkness closes in.

CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are representing the domestic distribution rights.

Kunis was most recently seen as part of the star-studded ensemble of the Knives Out pic, Wake Up Dead Man. On the producing she and her Brick partners Lisa Sterbakov and Cameron Curtis most recently produced Luckiest Girl Alive for Netflix and are pioneers in Web3 producing animated series Stoner Cats, The Gimmicks and Armored Kingdom.

Adam Schindler & Brian Netto (collectively, Type AB) are the filmmaking duo behind Netflix’s #1 worldwide hit thriller Don’t Move. The duo is also attached to direct Every House is Haunted, based on the novel by Ian Rogers, with Sam Raimi and Roy Lee producing.

Kunis is represented by CAA, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP, and Curtis Talent. Laura Moss & Brendan O’Brien are represented by UTA and Law Offices of Matthew Saver. Cimfel & White are represented by Gersh, Persistent and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis LLP. Tracy Sierra is represented by WME and The Helen Heller Agency. Scott Free Productions is represented by CAA and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc. Picturestart is represented by WME. Brick for Sheep is represented by CAA and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP.

Scott Free’s upcoming releases include Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water, Trap House, directed by Michael Dowse and starring Dave Bautista; and Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars for 20th Century Studios.