20th Century's new adaptation of the 1992 film The Hand That Rocks The Cradle will see Maika Monroe join the cast. The actor was recently seen in this year's horror thriller, Longlegs. The film will be directed by Michelle Garza Cervera, best known for her debut film Huesera: The Bone Woman.
The original film was directed by Curtis Hanson and starred Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, and Julianne Moore. It follows the pregnant wife of a physician who kills himself after he is accused of sexual misconduct by his patients. This shock leads the wife to miscarry, after which she poses as a nanny for one of her husband's accusers and slowly begins to infiltrate the family. Monroe will play the role of the wife played by De Mornay in the original.
The title of the 1992 thriller is taken from an 1865 poem by William Ross Wallace. The new film will be produced by Ted Field of Radar Pictures and Michael Schaefer and Mike Larocca.
