Olivia Wilde to direct Don’t Worry Darling, a 1950s psychological thriller

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Olivia Wilde is at it again, folks, and this time she's traveling back to the 1950s to deliver a psychological thriller titled DON'T WORRY DARLING.

Wilde will direct and produce the new project, which has both studios and streaming services looking to land the BOOMSMART creative's next big thing. At least a dozen offers for DON'T WORRY DARLING are on the table right now, with the auction looking to close before the week is through.

Here's the official logline for the film:

A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath.

With a script penned by THE SILENCE writers Shane and Carey Van Dyke, Wilde plans for her BOOKSMART collaborator Katie Silberman to draft a total rewrite. It's also been reported that Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee will produce alongside Wilde and Silberman.

While details related to the project are scarce at this time, we do know that the film will center around a discontented 1950s housewife.

The hope is that Wilde will bring her now-signature brand of intelligence and energy to the project, which proved to work quite well when she helmed BOOKSMART, one of 2019's best viewed comedies. Despite only making $22.4 million at the domestic box office, BOOKSMART was celebrated by those who saw it for being a hilarious, fresh take on the buddy-comedy formula. Released in May of this year, BOOKSMART stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein as two overachieving high school students looking to shed their "smarty pants" personas for one night of unbridled debauchery before moving off to college.

With BOOKSMART arriving as an indie darling, and studios falling over themselves to scoop DON'T WORRY DARLING, it's become quite obvious that Wilde is a filmmaker to watch from here on out.