Poets & Writers Theater

Watch the Apple TV+ trailer for Lady in the Lake, a film adaptation of the 2019 novel of the same name by Laura Lipmann, directed by Alma Har’el and starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. The thriller mystery takes place in 1960s Baltimore and revolves around two women connected by a mysterious death.

This short video previews the Apple TV+ series adaptation of Blake Crouch’s best-selling science fiction novel, Dark Matter (Ballantine Books, 2016). Crouch, who serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer, explains the premise of this thriller involving parallel universes alongside actors Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.

“I wanted to try and write something more fun and more upbeat.” In this Waterstones interview, Alex Michaelides talks about the spontaneous and playful experience of writing his latest novel, The Fury (Celadon, 2024), and how both his upbringing in Cyprus and career in Hollywood shaped his thrilling story.

Eileen is a psychological thriller film based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning debut novel of the same name, with a screenplay by the author and her husband Luke Goebel. Directed by William Oldroyd and starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, the film is set in a 1960s juvenile detention facility and follows the life of a young correctional officer and her entanglements with a charming prison psychologist.