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The Housemaid By Freida McFadden Is Being Made Into A Movie!

The Housemaid By Freida McFadden Review

Since one thing I wanted to do this year was to stop spending so much time on social media, I found myself mindlessly scrolling through it two nights ago. That’s when I came across some very interesting news. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden is being made into a movie.

For those of you that are not familiar with The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, it’s a psychological thriller that quickly became a bestseller. And for good reason, it is one of the best psychological thrillers I have read in a while. I actually ended up reviewing it on my blog a while back because I enjoyed it so much. You can read my full review here.

You can find the book here.

I noticed Amanda Seyfried in the video so I’m hoping she’ll be in the movie. She’s such a fantastic actress and I’ve been a fan of hers for years now. I saw a few other familiar faces too. I rarely have high hopes for movies that started out as a book. They rarely are as good as the book. But I sort of have a good feeling about this one. I think if they play their cards right and stick to the plot exactly as it is in the book, the movie is going to turn out fantastic.

Have you read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden? If so, did you enjoy it and did you know it was being made into a movie? Let me know in the comments below!

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47 responses to “The Housemaid By Freida McFadden Is Being Made Into A Movie!”

  1. Bookstooge Avatar
    Bookstooge

    if they play their cards right and stick to the plot exactly as it is in the book, the movie is going to turn out fantastic.

    Oh, I had to wipe a tear away from laughing so hard at that. Sorry. But movie directors are all egomaniacs who do whatever they want with material. So, my advice would be to enjoy it when it comes out as an alternate “take” on the story and not as a faithful adaptation. Much like the Dune movies by that *&^%$#@ Villenauve guy…

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      I so know what you mean but I’ve seen some movies or TV shows adapted from books that are fantastic so I’m going to keep my fingers crossed. I don’t think it’ll be as great as the book most likely but it may still be a good movie.

      Reply
  2. Mary K. Doyle Avatar
    Mary K. Doyle

    Hi Pooja, I have not read this book and not sure I can. I’m easily spooked, and I’m a screamer in the theater. I scare everyone around me.

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    1. byngnigel Avatar
      byngnigel

      😄😄 best sort of movie goer

      Reply
    2. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      It’s quite disturbing to be honest so I wouldn’t really recommend it if you get scared easily.

      Reply
  3. Milena Alien Avatar
    Milena Alien

    Hi Pooja, I haven’t read the book. Sometimes the movies are good but mostly they idealize the characters and make them picture perfect. Yet some of them make realistic plots with believable characters which is something I look forward to in a movie.

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yeah, I have an issue with that too. They also cut out vital parts of the plot which I hate.

      Reply
  4. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
    Cindy Georgakas

    Well this was a worthy endeavor and you know me and movies…I hadn’t a clue but do let us know when it’s out Pooja! 💗

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Will do! 😊

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      1. Cindy Georgakas Avatar
        Cindy Georgakas

        🙏🏼

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  5. shivatje Avatar
    shivatje

    🙏🌹

    Aum Shanti

    Reply
    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      🙏🙏

      Reply
  6. katiemiafrederick Avatar
    katiemiafrederick

    A Quick Wiki Cliff Notes Review Shows
    Frieda McFadden a Practicing Physician
    Specializing in Brain Injuries is Author

    of 26 Books in the Last
    11 Years Very Prolific Indeed
    And Her Thriller “The Housemaid”

    Is Surely An Award Winning Thriller
    Dear Pooja Being Made into a Big Screen Movie

    Yet It’s True Hehe
    in the United States
    The Last 9 Days of

    the New Year

    Exceeds Any Fiction
    of Horror And Clown
    Show too So Very Bizarre

    As It Would Be Too Dam
    Crazy to Even Believe as Fiction

    If it Wasn’t
    Reality Now

    Yep A Big Top
    Horror Show
    Continues in
    Through the
    New Year in the

    US Bizarre

    Yet It’s Not
    Gonna Stop

    ‘Godzilla’

    From Smiling
    And Breathing
    Earth Wind and
    Fire of Continuing
    Unabated Climate Change…

    Balance or

    Else the

    Art of the
    Deal of Living on Earth…
    The Question is Who is

    Currently Sent as ‘Godzilla’…

    Hmm the
    Answer
    in Microcosm
    of the Sour Potato
    Root Seems Clear

    Still
    Rotting
    Far Below Above..:)

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yes, I believe she’s a neurosurgeon which is so impressive!

      It does sometimes seem like the monsters aren’t just in the books or TV but in real life.

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      1. katiemiafrederick Avatar
        katiemiafrederick

        Ah Yes Dear Pooja
        As Carl Sagan Related
        In “Contact” On
        Pensacola
        Beach
        In the
        Movie
        Version
        Close to
        Where i Live…

        Humans are an
        “Interesting Mix
        Capable of Bringing
        To Fruition Beautiful
        Dreams
        And
        Horrible
        Nightmares”…

        Surrounded By
        Angels And Demons

        Indeed
        “We aRe All

        For Real”…

        THere is No
        Other More

        Wondrous
        Or Terrifying

        Beings
        On Earth
        At Least

        For Now…

        Yet “AI Cometh
        Sooner And Soon”.. .👿 👼 🤖

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  7. byngnigel Avatar
    byngnigel

    Now I have to go read the boo. I love a good thriller. 🤗

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      You should, you’ll love it 🤗

      Reply
  8. Brian, Snarebox Avatar
    Brian, Snarebox

    I had given up social media as well and then on a whim someone convinced me to download Substack and see if I’d like it for blogging. It took me a few days to realize it’s basically just a Twitter feed with occasionally longer posts, so I had to disable notifications for it lol. I might try blogging there, though. I’ll have to look into it more to see how much you can customize your posts. Even if WordPress are slowly destroying their app, I do like the fact that the stand-alone version is still 100% customizable.

    Reply
    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      I’ve heard so much about Substack but the biggest complain I hear (even with most platforms) is the community. I think that’s why so many of us are even still on WP after all the crazy changes making it unusable.

      Reply
    2. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Oh and do let us know your experiences on Substack, I think many bloggers would be interested 😀

      Reply
      1. Brian, Snarebox Avatar
        Brian, Snarebox

        The community leaves much to be desired. Lots of people who use Substack say it’s so much better than Twitter… but it’s exactly the same. I already unsubscribed from everything. 😆

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        1. Pooja G Avatar
          Pooja G

          Oh geez, well that’s disappointing 😩

          Reply
  9. Elsie LMC Avatar
    Elsie LMC

    I started this book but never got round to finishing it, I’d love to pick it up again tho as I was enjoying it, things just got in the way. I read a short story by Freida for Christmas and absolutely loved it, she has a way with words ✨️. It’s very exciting to hear her work is being brought to the big screen! Thanks for letting us know 💗

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      You absolutely should. It’s a little slow at the start but oh boy does it get good. Yup, she is really a brilliant writer and happy for her much deserved success 😊

      Reply
  10. Raegan Spence Avatar
    Raegan Spence

    What timing! I received The Housemaid for Christmas and finished it in 3 days! I knew there was another one so in an airport I purchased what I thought was the final book. I sent a picture of the cover to my daughter in law and she said “Already? What did you think of the second one?” I had monies, so back to the airport bookstore I went to hunt down the send (The Housemaids Secret”. It was nowhere to be found so I hopped on Kindle, found it and devoured it in 3 days as well. Yesterday, The started the 3rd book and I am not disappointed at all! I’m so happy to see it will be made into a movie – do you think they will tie all the books into the one movie?

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Oh what a cool coincidence! I had to wait for the second and third book to be published and let me tell you I was so ready to get my hands on them as soon as they were released.
      I have a feeling that they will make each book into a separate movie but not sure.

      Reply
  11. Ranjana Avatar
    Ranjana

    I haven’t read any books by Frieda but a psychological thriller novel always has a gripping edge which makes it much more interesting than action-packed, fast-paced Sidney Sheldon.

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      You absolutely should check them out, the plots are brilliant. I love Sidney Sheldon’s work too but I think Frieda McFadden has a different vibe. Her books are more like a slow burn.

      Reply
  12. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    I haven’t read this, as the genre isn’t too much my thing, but I also really appreciate Seyfried as an actress, so would watch it for her. Great you have something like this to look forward to! Happy surprise. 🙂

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yes, she’s such a fantastic actress so I hope the movie is good. I think most people would enjoy it if they made it similar to the book. If they make too many changes as it happens sometimes, I don’t know.
      Thanks, yeah it was a nice surprise!

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      1. Stephanie Avatar
        Stephanie

        It’s true. It seems very hard to be faithful to a book and not trim the wrong places.

        Reply
  13. Alex Diaz-Granados Avatar
    Alex Diaz-Granados

    The thing about adaptations from books to film is that screenwriters must strip the story down to its basics due to the needs of the visual medium. Let’s face it;as a novelist it doesn’t cost me anything (except time and effort) to write a story set in two or three cities in two different time periods (as I am doing in the novel I’m writing). If you can imagine it, you can write it, and you don’t have to worry how much it will cost to make. You write it, your readers’ imaginations will provide the visuals, sounds, and create imaginary scores.

    Also, literary fiction doesn’t have to worry about running time limits. If your story demands it, you can write a novel that’s 500, 600, even 1,000 pages long.

    Movies, though, are a different medium, with far more restrictions imposed. You can’t take a novel (not even my upcoming “Reunion: Coda”) and film it faithfully with every scene lifted from the page to the screen. Most feature films have running times of 120 minutes, sometimes less. In screenwriting terms, 1 page of script = 1 minute of film. Most of the best novels out there are 240-300 pages long.

    And, unless we want movies that are filmed entirely on soundstages with green screens so every location can be digitally rendered, we’d have to forget about adapting novels set in more than one place, or in just one exotic location. In the novel I’m currently writing, I have set chapters in Miami, New York City, and London…and in the past, at that. I don’t know how much it would cost a studio to shoot scenes in those locations, much less in a way where they’d look the way they did in the 1980s and early 2000s. I do, however, know that it would be extremely costly.

    Adapting stories from one medium to another is a matter of pragmatic compromise. Since it’s impossible to simply turn a novel into a screenplay (remember the formula to calculate running time!), the best a screenwriter can do is take the essence of a prose story and write a script based on that. Expecting a word-for-word transcript of a novel as a moving picture just is not possible.

    (Plus, it’s boring. What’s the fun in going to a movie if you know, beat by beat, exactly what’s going to happen? Nicholas Meyer adapted his own “Seven Per-Cent Solution” from novel to film back in the mid-1970s…and the two versions have similar plots but must conform to their formats.)

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yes, very true. It’s really limiting when it’s a movie and oftentimes studios tend to be more focused on profit than on the story itself. I also think sometimes it is possible to create a beautiful movie or show from a book though because I’ve seen one or two great ones. Even if the story is stripped it’s fine as long as the important parts are kept in but most movies/tv shows often get rid of vital plotlines/scenes.

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      1. Alex Diaz-Granados Avatar
        Alex Diaz-Granados

        Well, it’s not just the financial side of the filmmaking process; it’s also the nature of the medium. Film relies on images and sound only. A screenwriter (and I count myself in this category) must focus strictly on what the audience can see and hear, and rare is the film making team that can approximate characters’ innermost thoughts visually. And adding narration or voiceovers to replicate the narrative style of a novel doesn’t fit every genre or directorial style. Most avid readers seem to forget that what makes books the best way to tell stories is that they can take the time and space (in pages) to delve into the characters’ hearts and minds by showing readers what they think and feel. Movies suck at this because they can only focus on the visual aspects. And, as I mentioned in my earlier comment, even if money weren’t a major issue, running time is.

        The best way to adapt a novel is, in my opinion, as a limited series on a decent streaming or TV channel. There still would be some compromises needed, and it still cannot be a word-for-word adaptation, but you’d get more of the source’s spirit if not the actual letter.

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        1. Pooja G Avatar
          Pooja G

          Yes, very true. Agreed, a limited series is best since you can get a lot more in.

          Reply
  14. a-cute-weirdo Avatar
    a-cute-weirdo

    Oohhh, niceeee. I loved this book, especially the ending. I recently found that there are 2 sequels and I’m currently reading book 2. I know books made into movies are always underwhelming but I’ll watch it nonetheless!

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yes, that’s right there are two more books and one short story that’s related to the plot. I plan to watch anyway too lol!

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      1. a-cute-weirdo Avatar
        a-cute-weirdo

        Oouuiiiii. Please, where can I find the short story?

        Reply
        1. Pooja G Avatar
          Pooja G

          It’s on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Housemaids-Wedding-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B0D9YHTZSP/ref=ci_mcx_mr_mp_m_d_sccl_2_2/147-5770065-4827426?pd_rd_w=7LdAm&content-id=amzn1.sym.904f4c18-630f-4c52-8bdf-78921242d9bd:amzn1.symc.27c848cf-47ab-487b-bd07-91bc659e0119&pf_rd_p=904f4c18-630f-4c52-8bdf-78921242d9bd&pf_rd_r=68D9Q9N8G2CPFPAWGQSB&pd_rd_wg=kkRyt&pd_rd_r=b4c371f6-f3d7-4148-8adb-7c9951071d99&pd_rd_i=B0D9YHTZSP&psc=1
          But I’m sure you can find it elsewhere online too like ePub.

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          1. a-cute-weirdo Avatar
            a-cute-weirdo

            Great! Thank you!

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            1. Pooja G Avatar
              Pooja G

              You’re welcome, enjoy!

              Reply
  15. SiriusSea Avatar
    SiriusSea

    Oh, I will check it out! Thank you ~ <3

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Hope you enjoy it, if you like a good thriller I think you’ll love it 🥰

      Reply
  16. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    I don’t know the book, but I’m excited for you that it’s being made into a movie since you enjoyed it so much!

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yes, it’s very exciting news for any fan of a good thriller!

      Reply
  17. Dawn Avatar
    Dawn

    I read and really enjoyed it! I probably won’t watch the movie, I typically prefer not to when I really enjoyed the book.

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    1. Pooja G Avatar
      Pooja G

      Yeah I completely understand that since the book is almost always better. It’s definitely a good book!

      Reply

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