Forget the American Psycho remake discourse, it's time to focus on what really matters: Margaret Qualley starring in another movie from Sanctuary director Zachary Wigon and playing a psychopath who gets a job as a governess at a gothic manor in 1858.
Deadline announces that the upcoming horror-thriller movie will see Qualley playing the lead character, an eccentric young woman named Winifred Notty, who has "psychopathic tendencies." Winifred is tasked with tending to the homeowner's children and their education on their family's history. But when staff members start disappearing, the owners realize that something might be very wrong with their newest hire. The plot sounds a little like a reverse Turn of the Screw.
Regarding working with Wigon again after Sanctuary, Qualley says, "Working with Zach again feels like a rare gift, and I can’t wait to step into this twisted world he’s created.”
Wigon describes the character of Winifred as a "complex antihero" and teases that "Feito's "screenplay is an audacious blend of psychodrama, satire, gore and mystery."
Victorian Psycho will be based on an upcoming novel by author Virginia Feito, known for his historical thriller novel Mrs. March. Her next book, also titled Victorian Psycho, will be released on February 5, 2025, with production on the film starting in March 2025. Feito will write the script for the movie.
Qualley has had a fantastic 2024 with her acclaimed performance in Coralie Fargeat's excellent body horror movie The Substance in which she starred in opposite of Demi Moore. Many feel that Moore and Qualley both deserve Academy Award attention for their work in the film.
Apart from The Substance, Qualley has appeared in numerous other high-profile projects like Maid, Kinds of Kindness, Poor Things, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She also has several films in development, such as Happy Gilmore 2, the Ethan Coen film Honey Don't, and Blue Moon from director Richard Linklater.