Tate Taylor to Direct 'Gone Girl'-Esque Thriller 'The Girl On the Train'

Tate Taylor has had pretty good luck working with Dreamworks. His debut feature The Help earned four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and won his friend Octavia Spencer a Best Supporting Actress award. So it makes sense he'd reconnect with the studio for another adaptation of a best-selling novel, The Girl On the Train.

Taylor, who last directed the James Brown biopic Get On Up, will direct The Girl On the Train, which is based on Paula Hawkins' novel that has been compared favorably to Gone Girl. The mystery-thriller centers on Rachel, a woman still pained from a recent divorce who spends her commute to work fantasizing about the perfect she encounters every day on the train. After witnessing something shocking at their house she becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. 

Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary) adapted the screenplay and this one is looking like a high priority at Dreamworks. Understandable given the wealth of strong female-led projects over the last few months, and the audience's  seeming hunger for more of them. [Deadline]