Cannes: Patricia Highsmith Novel ‘The Blunderer’ Lands Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel Atop Cast

Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Imogen Poots and Toby Jones have joined the cast of the untitled film based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Blunderer, which will be directed by Andy Goddard. Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa will produce the psychological thriller along with Ted Hope and Sierra Pictures. Sierra Pictures will finance the film. The executive producers are Sierra/Affinity’s Nick Meyer, Marc Schaberg and Kelly McCormick. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales of the project, making it available to buyers for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival. CAA is overseeing the sale of the project domestically. The film is slated to begin production later this year.

Highsmith wrote the Blunderer novel in between Strangers On A Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Set in early-1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse (Wilson) is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara (Biel) and leading a charmed and perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer (Jones) and an over-ambitious detective. Walter’s obsession, his lies and his lust for another woman (Poots) will collide in a crush of guilt, innocence and, ultimately, fate.