Variety is reporting that Naomi Watts has signed on to star in The Wolf Hour, a psychological thriller from director Alistair Banks Griffin, which is being supported by the Sundance Institute Feature Film Project.
The film will see Watts as “a woman who was once a celebrated counter-culture figure who now lives alone in her Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world during the notorious “Summer of Sam” in 1977. As she retreats further into isolation, an unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses. Watts will also executive produce.”
“The Wolf Hour delivers Hitchcockian tension in a densely layered world with a role that will exploit every fibre of Academy Award nominee Naomi Watt’s emotional range as an actor,” said Gabrielle Stewart, managing director of HanWay Films. “Director Alistair Banks Griffin has a clear vision of the world he is enveloping Watts in: all of our senses are going to be stimulated.”
Watts has recently been seen in the Netflix series Gypsy and feature films The Book of Henry and The Glass Castle. In July, she signed up for Penguin Bloom, an adaptation of Bradley Trevor Greive’s bestselling, which she is also producing alongside Reese Witherspoon.
