Movie Casting News: Keira Knightley to Produce and Star in 'The Other Typist'

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Suzanne Rindell’s debut novel The Other Typist, which Fox Searchlight has acquired film rights to.

Here's the article via THR below...


Keira Knightley to Produce and Star in 'The Other Typist' (Exclusive)

Fox Searchlight has acquired the rights to Suzanne Rindell’s debut novel The Other Typist as a vehicle for Keira Knightley, who is attached to star in and produce. 

Published by Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam in May, the novel revolves around Rose, a lonely and isolated typist in a police precinct, who strikes up a friendship with a beautiful and mysterious co-worker who introduces her to the glamorous and forbidden underworld of 1920s New York. 

Kirkus Reviews described the novel as “a deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative” that combines “a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, [and] some Great Gatsbyflourishes.” 

Knightley, who starred in last year’s Anna Karenina, will next be seen opposite Chris Pine in Jack Ryan, which Paramount plans to release Dec. 25. 

The project will be overseen by Searchlight’s senior vp production Zola Mashariki and director of production DanTram Nguyen.