Maya Hawke to star in Netflix’s The God of the Woods adaptation

Bloody Disgusting has reported that Stranger Things star Maya Hawke has been cast in the upcoming Netflix series adaptation of the 2024 Liz Moore novel The God of the Woods, with Moore and Liz Hannah (Mindhunter) set to serve as showrunners and Sony Pictures Television appearing as the studio behind the adaptation.

The book “centres on the inscrutable Van Laar family and whether their odd reactions to the disappearance of two of their children hide a guilty secret.”

It was published by HarperCollins and garnered impressive reviews praising its immersive atmosphere, haunting events and gripping tonal style. Hawke will appear as Judy Luptack, a woman investigator working to hold her own in the male-dominated Bureau of Criminal Investigation, who is assigned to track down a missing girl.

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This adaptation marks Maya Hawke her sixth appearance in a Netflix property, beginning in 2017, in an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women as March sister Jo, the second of the four sisters. This was followed in 2019 with her role as Robin Buckley in the third season of the smash-hit sci-fi series Stranger Things until the fifth and final season. This was followed by 2021’s horror film Fear Street Part One: 1994 by Leigh Janiack, as Heather Watkins, a mall worker, and 2022’s Do Revenge, a black-comedy teen film by director Jennifer Kaytin. Hawke has also appeared in the 2023 biographical drama film Maestro by Bradley Cooper as Jamie Berstein.

The star is also set for the upcoming dystopian novel adaptation The Hunger Games: Sunrise of the Reaping, based on the 2025 book of the same title by author Suzanne Collins. The film, the sixth installment in the hugely popular Hunger Games film series, serves as a prequel to the original film and a sequel to The Hunger Games: The Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes, adapted for the screen in 2023 by director Francis Lawrence.