RUMOR: Emma Watson To Star In New BBC One Series The Miniaturist?

Emma Watson may have found her next project. The young star is rumored to be starring in the new BBC One’s series The Miniaturist, based on the novel by the same name.

These rumors began circulating across social media yesterday, March 27, after the young star was spotted filming, a yet to be announced, series in Leiden, Netherlands. With The Miniaturist already announced to be filming in that city and no official cast announced either, it is quite possible that Emma will be starring in the new three-part series. However, this is merely speculation until casting is confirmed.

If she is indeed starring in this series, which would be awesome, I hope she is playing the role of Nella. For those interested, I have posted the summary of the book/series below the jump. We will keep you updated as we learn more.

“Petronella (Nella) Oortman, a poor 18-year-old girl from the Dutch countryside, arrives at the Golden Bend home in Amsterdam of the wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt, who married her a month earlier. She steps into a house of secrets held by Brandt’s ascetic sister Marin, the servants Cornelia and Otto, and Brandt himself, who treats her more like a friend than a husband. Brandt gives her a wedding present of a dollhouse designed to look like their nine-storey home in miniature, and she engages the services of a local miniaturist to add realistic furnishings to it. The miniaturist, whom she never meets, begins sending her lifelike dolls and furnishings that are eerily accurate and even seem to predict the future. As webs of danger close in on the characters, Nella wonders if the miniaturist holds everyone’s fate in her hands.”