Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter becomes a fashionable kidnapping witch in Netflix’s adaptation of J. A. White’s book, Nightbooks.
Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a creative boy with a strong passion for writing scary stories. But when he’s labeled weird and rejected for what he likes, he swears he’ll never write again. That’s when an evil witch (Krysten Ritter), captures him in her magical apartment in New York City and demands that he tell her a new tale every night if he wants to stay alive.
Trapped inside with Lenore, the witch’s spiteful cat watching his every move, Alex meets Yasmin (Lidya Jewett), another young prisoner who has learned how to survive the witch’s wicked whims. With Yasmin’s help, Alex must learn to embrace what makes him unique—his love for scary stories—and rewrite his own destiny to break them free.
Nightbooks is based on J. A. White’s children’s book of the same name, and is directed by David Yarovesky (Brightburn) and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, both of Five Feet Apart and The Curse of La Llorona.
The film stars Winslow Fegley (Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made), Lidya Jewett (Wonder), and Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones).
Nightbooks releases September 15th on Netflix.
