Chernin Entertainment and Rupert Wyatt are going noir with Night Film.

Chernin has dipped into its discretionary fund to pick up the upcoming noir thriller by Marisha Pessl, the author behind the best-selling debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Wyatt, who helmed the Chernin-produced Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is attached to direct. Chernin is producing.

- Borys Kit for The Hollywood Reporter