Mimi Cave recently made her feature directorial debut with the very well-received thriller Fresh, and now Deadline reports that she’s set to direct Nicole Kidman in a Hitchcockian thriller called Holland, Michigan – which Kidman will also be producing with Per Saari, through her company Blossom Films.
Holland, Michigan has taken a slow journey to the screen. The project started out with a screenplay by Andrew Sodroski, creator of the Discovery television series Manhunt, that was featured on the Black List back in 2013. All that’s being said about the plot of Holland, Michigan now is that it “involves secrets that lurk beneath a Midwestern town with a Hitchcock bent.” But here’s the synopsis that was given when the script was on the Black List nine years ago:
When a traditional Midwestern woman suspects her husband of infidelity, an amateur investigation unravels.
That still doesn’t tell us much, but at least it gives some idea as to what’s going on in this story.
Holland, Michigan is coming to us from Amazon Studios. Kidman previously worked with the studio on the Lucille Ball / Desi Arnez biopic Being the Ricardos, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination. (And so did her co-stars Javier Bardem and J.K. Simmons.) Kidman is also starring in and producing the Amazon drama series Expats. She was most recently seen in the movie The Northman and an episode of the Apple TV+ series Roar in which she played “The Woman Who Ate Photographs”.
In addition to Kidman and Saari, Holland, Michigan is being produced by Peter Dealbert of Pacific View Management & Productions. Kate Churchill serves as executive producer.
I haven’t watched Manhunt, but I’m totally on board to watch a Hitchcockian thriller from Nicole Kidman and the director of Fresh. How does Holland, Michigan sound to you? Share your thoughts on this project by leaving a comment below.
At one point, documentarian Errol Morris was going to direct a version of Holland, Michigan that was going to star Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez. But it fell apart before filming could begin.