The studio acquired the rights to the JP Delaney novel, to be published in 2016, reported Deadline.
"The Girl Before" revolves around a traumatised woman, who falls in love with a minimalist house and the man who designed it, but then finds that another woman died at the home three years earlier.
Michael De Luca is producing the film with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Howard and Erica Huggins.
Howard's next film "In the Heart of the Sea," starring Chris Hemsworth, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Benjamin Walker, and Tom Holland will release next month.