Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead To Star In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Remake

Maika Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead will reportedly star in the upcoming The Hand That Rocks the Cradle remake. Deadline reports that Winstead (Ahsoka, Birds of Prey) is in talks to join Monroe (Longlegs, It Follows in the film, which will provide a fresh take on the 1992 domestic thriller.

Michelle Garza Cervera, whose Huesera: The Bone Woman released last year, will direct the film for 20th Century Studios. Micah Bloomberg wrote the script for the new take, which will be a two-hander with Monroe playing the role Rebecca De Mornay played in the first.

The original film starred De Mornay and made her a household name. Annabella Sciorra, Matt McCoy and Ernie Hudson also starred in the film, which centered on a woman (De Mornay) who poses as a nanny for a couple in a revenge plot after the wife (Sciorra) accused her husband of sexual misconduct, causing him to commit suicide. The film was released during the era of women-led thrillers such as Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and Single White Female and was a box office smash with $140 million worldwide against a $11.9 million budget.