After talking up taking a break from acting, Tilda Swinton (“The Killer”) is gearing up to work with director David Lowery on “Death In Her Hands,” an adaptation of author Ottessa Moshfegh’s wickedly dark comedy whodunnit.
As revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Swinton will play a widow after a discovery develops a growing obsession with finding the truth about the fate of a mystery woman who may have been murdered. Lowery is handling double duty as he’s also writing the script.
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The official synopsis for the Moshfegh novel, published in 2023 via Amazon:
While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body.” But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one.
Lowery has been tackling all sorts of projects with varying genre elements with the remake of Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon,” “A Ghost Story,” his mature Arthurian film “The Green Knight,” the Robert Redford-led pic “The Old Man & The Gun,” and more recently, tackled the “Star Wars” universe working on the Disney+ series, “Skeleton Crew.”
See-Saw Films is attached as the pic heads to the Cannes Film Market with Cross City Films and WME Independent teaming up to secure financing.
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