Emily Blunt has been offered the lead role in DreamWorks’ adaptation of “The Girl on the Train” and is in early talks to accept the part of lonely, alcoholic divorcรฉe Rachel, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.
DreamWorks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The Help” filmmaker Tate Taylor will direct from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson, who adapted the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins.
The story follows Rachel as she fantasizes during her daily commute about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until she sees something shocking happen there one morning and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.