“When people ask me what the movie is about, I’m like, ‘It’s about motherhood and rage,’” says director Marielle Heller in this exclusive first look. “And you either get that or you don’t.”
“It was so unique and otherworldly, and like nothing I’d ever read before,” says Adams of Yoder’s novel, which the six-time Oscar nominee poured through before it had even been published. Adams’s production company partnered with Annapurna Pictures to option the rights to the book—which thrilled Yoder, though she also found it slightly baffling. “It never crossed my mind,” the author says, that someone could make a film version of Nightbitch. “It’s so internal. I think it’s a huge challenge.
Neighborhood dogs start turning up wherever she goes. There’s a bump at the base of her spine that just might be a nascent tail. Things head in an increasingly surreal direction, showing just how wild Yoder let her imagination run when she wrote the novel in a sort of fevered haze. “One of the real challenges of Nightbitch is, what is the tone going to be? Is it going to be funny? Is it going to be dark? Is it going to be horror?” Yoder says.
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