Sony Announces Single Female Remake with Ortega, Russell

Sony Pictures has provided a significant update on its long-developing remake of the 1992 psychological thriller Single White Female, retitling the project Single Female and attaching screenwriter Sarah DeLappe to the script. The film, produced under the studio's 3000 Pictures banner, will star Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell, who are also serving as producers alongside Stacey Sher and Marisa Paiva. The announcement comes nearly a year after the project was first revealed, with production details still emerging but no director attached yet.

The original film, directed by Barbet Schroeder, adapted John Lutz's 1990 novel SWF Seeks Same and followed Allison Jones, a woman who, after splitting from her fiancé Sam Rawson, rents a room in her New York apartment to a new roommate, Hedra Carlson. The two women initially form a close bond, but tensions escalate as Hedra becomes jealous and increasingly hostile toward Sam, leading to obsessive and violent behavior that forces Allison to confront the danger in her home. Starring Bridget Fonda as Allison and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Hedra, the movie was made on a $16 million budget and grossed more than $84 million worldwide, marking a...