New Line picks up a timely psychological thriller from Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart was huge, ensuring that whatever she does next will—at the very least—have a lot of momentum coming out of the gate, and now we know exactly what that next thing is. As reported by Deadline, Wilde’s next film is called Don’t Worry Darling, and the spec script for it (basically the step between “I have an idea for a movie” and “here’s a finished screenplay for my movie”) just got bought by New Line after an 18-way auction between various movie studios, including Netflix, Legendary, MGM, Blumhouse, and Apple. That’s some tough competition, so New Line presumably paid a hefty amount of money for it. The spec would also presumably be pretty good, but again, Booksmart was so well received that it might not matter.