Rosamund Pike to Star in Gone Girl Movie Adaptation

The Gone Girl is here. British actress Rosamund Pike has been cast as the lead character in the upcoming movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn‘s bestseller, Gone Girl, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

Pike, 34, nabbed the role over several better-known actresses who were reportedly considered for the part, including Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman, Emily Blunt, and Olivia Wilde.

The actress will star opposite Ben Affleck in the film version of the thriller that follows a wife who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, and a husband who becomes the lead suspect in her disappearance.

Meanwhile, as production on the David Fincher-directed film moves forward, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry have been named as possible actors for supporting roles, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Reese Witherspoon will serve as a producer.

So who is Rosamund Pike, anyway? The blonde actress recently costarred withTom Cruise in Jack Reacher, and will grace the screen alongside Martin Freeman, Simon Pegg, and Pierce Brosnan in the August action flick The World’s End.

But she’s perhaps best-known for playing Jane Bennet in the 2005 adaptation ofPride & Prejudice.

Gone Girl was one of the bestselling books of 2012. The New York Times called it a “dazzling breakthrough,” and wrote that the story is “wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they’re hard to part with.”