Actor Elisabeth Moss has boarded a new film titled Run Rabbit Run from The Handmaid's Tale director Daina Reid.

Novelist Hannah Kent has penned the script from an original idea developed with Melbourne-based production company Carver Films, reports say.

Carver's Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw are producing the project, while XYZ Films is executive producing. Moss is also serving as a producer along with her partner Lindsey McManus.

'The modern-day horror story will follow Sarah, a fertility doctor, with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behaviour of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past,' the plotline reads.

XYZ Films will be introducing the film to worldwide buyers next month at the Cannes virtual market