Amy Adams Goes Into Lockdown In Netflix’s ‘Woman in the Window’ Trailer

More and more Americans are getting vaccinated, but Amy Adams is going back into quarantine in Netflix’s The Woman in the Window trailer.
The trailer, which you can watch above, debuted on Thursday afternoon as part of a live virtual Q&A event with Adams and fellow cast members Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Anthony Mackie, and Fred Hechinger, as well as with director Joe Wright. (Another version of the trailer was previously released by 20th Century Studios in 2019.)
This psychological thriller—which will release on Netflix on May 14—stars Adams as a New York City psychologist named Dr. Anna Fox, who suffers from severe agoraphobia. Much like all of us did this past year, Anna spends her days locked inside her apartment. She often spies on her neighbors across the street: the controlling husband, Alistair Russell (Gary Oldman), and his wife, a woman that Anna believes is Jane Russell (Julianne Moore), whom Anna befriends. But through her spying, she finds herself as an inadvertent witness to a crime scene.
In The Woman in the Window trailer, we see that crime through Anna’s eyes: Jane Russell (Moore) being stabbed by her husband. But when she reports the crime to the authorities, Mr. Russell (Oldman) claims Anna has never met his wife, who is now played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. Whaaaat? A thrilling mystery is afoot.

While audiences may not be looking for a film about a woman quarantining herself at this stage in the pandemic, the bigger issue of bad timing is thanks to The Woman in the Window producer Scott Rudin. In a recent investigation by The Hollywood Reporter, the producer’s ex-staffers accused him of abusive behavior, including allegedly smashing a computer on his assistant’s hand, leaving him bleeding and in need of medical attention. In that same report, sources claimed The Woman in the Window production was “fraught with drama” thanks to Rudin, who hired Tony Gilroy (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) for rewrites and ordered reshoots after the film tested poorly with early audiences. (Sources told THR the film tested about the same after those changes.)

During the Netflix Q&A on Thursday, director Joe Wright called the production “intense. We all became sort of feral.”
Rudin did not attend the Q&A, and the moderator, Amy Robach, did not ask about Rudin’s involvement. However, journalists were given a sneak peek with an additional film clip beyond the trailer: the scene where Anna meets Julianne Moore’s character for the first time.
It’s been a long journey for this film adaptation, which was originally supposed to release under 20th Century Fox in 2019. Then, after Disney acquired Fox, the film was moved to a 2020 release. In August 2020, it was announced Netflix acquired the film, and now it will finally release via the streaming service on May 14.
The Woman in the Window was adapted by playwright and actor Tracy Letts, based on the 2018 novel of the same name, written by Daniel Mallory under the pseudonym A. J. Finn.
The Woman in the Window will begin streaming on Netflix on May 14.

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