Crystal City Entertainment and Moonshot Films have acquired the rights to Lisa Jewell's bestselling 2018 novel Then She Was Gone for a movie film adaptation. Deadline reported that Jewell's books "are hot properties in the adaptation market at the moment," with Netflix currently working on an adaptation of her novel None of This Is True.
Catherine Steadman has joined the project as screenwriter. A former Downton Abbey actress whose more recent acting credits include The Rook and On the Edge, Steadman is also an author, with works including her 2018 book Something in the Water.
Jonathan Rubenstein and Ari Pinchot of Crystal City Entertainment and Moonshot Films' Louis Paltnoi and Andrew Baker are producing Then She Was Gone. Casting has not yet gotten underway.