Brandon Sklenar has found his next port of call after breaking out in a big way this summer as part of the buzzy drama It Ends With Us, in which he starred alongside Blake Lively. Sklenar is set to star alongside Hollywood’s busiest woman — Sydney Sweeney — and Amanda Seyfried in Lionsgate’s adaptation of Freida McFadden’s bestselling thriller The Housemaid. Sweeney takes on the role of Millie, a woman struggling to rebuild her life who takes on a job as a housemaid for Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), a wealthy couple burdened with dark secrets that quickly overshadow Millie’s own troubled past. Paul Feig is helming the movie which is also being produced by Hidden Pictures and Feigco Entertainment from a script written by Rebecca Sonnenshine.

It’s fair to say the book is certainly quite the popular title, so the adaptation of McFadden’s novel arrives with significant buzz. The Housemaid has been a staple on the New York Times bestseller list for over 75 weeks, accumulating more than 3.6 million copies sold and over half a billion pages read on Kindle. With its record-breaking success, it’s no surprise that Lionsgate secured the rights for a big-screen version.

Sklenar will next be seen appearing in Drop alongside Meghann Fahy in the spring of 2025, so The Housemaid marks another huge step in his attempts to make himself a key player in Hollywood. He’s most recently appeared in hit series like Westworld and 1923, the Yellowstone prequel series alongside Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.

What is ‘The Housemaid’ About?

Freida McFadden‘s novel is a psychological thriller that follows Millie, a woman who takes a job as a live-in housemaid for the seemingly perfect, wealthy Winchester family. Millie thinks she’s knocked it off when she gets the job after a rough period in her life where she suffered financial hardships, but things soon go awry. She works for Nina Winchester, an elegant but scatty woman and her “perfect” husband, Andrew.

Millie gets free room and board in a luxurious mansion, and Nina’s strange antics could just be quirky behavior from a wealthy woman. Or is it something more sinister? Millie starts to discover darker secrets about the family, Nina and Andrew begin to seem more trouble than first thought, and Millie soon realizes she’s in big trouble.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on Brandon Sklenar and the development of The Housemaid.

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