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Sadie Sink in Talks to Star in Film Based on Emma Cline’s ‘The Guest’
The novel follows a grifter navigating summer in the Hamptons.
A24 and Square Peg are negotiating to adapt it into a film.
Sadie Sink may star and produce, and Lorene Scafaria may direct.
The project would bring Cline’s bestselling book to the screen.
Sadie Sink is in talks to star in and produce a feature film based on Emma Cline’s bestselling novel The Guest.
A24 and Square Peg are negotiating for the rights, and Deadline reported that the project is in exclusive negotiations.
Lorene Scafaria is in talks to direct the film; Deadline also reported that she may write it.
The 2024 novel follows a calculating grifter navigating summer in the Hamptons.
The book was longlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award and named a best book of the year by multiple publications.
- Who
- Sadie Sink, Lorene Scafaria, A24 and Square Peg
- What
- A feature-film adaptation of Emma Cline’s novel The Guest
- When
- Reported October 9, 2026; the novel was published in 2024
- Where
- The novel is set in the Hamptons; the film’s production location is not stated
- Why
- The project is an adaptation of Cline’s bestselling novel
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Penguin Random House published Emma Cline’s novel The Guest.
Rights to the novel entered the market, according to Deadline.
Variety and Deadline reported that Sink and Scafaria were in talks for the adaptation and that A24 and Square Peg were negotiating for the rights.
- Novel
- The Guest by Emma Cline
- Publication
- Published in 2024 by Penguin Random House
- Lead role and producing
- Sadie Sink is in talks to star and produce
- Director
- Lorene Scafaria is in talks to direct
- Companies negotiating
- A24 and Square Peg
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