EXCLUSIVE: In her first TV sequence starring function, Lindsay Lohan is ready to headline and govt produce Rely My Lies, a drama in growth at Hulu. The mission, based mostly on the not too long ago revealed novel by Sophie Stava, comes from former This Is Us govt producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger in addition to twentieth Tv the place the duo and their The Stroll-Up Firm are beneath an total deal.
In Rely My Lies, written by Aptaker and Berger, when compulsive liar Sloane Caraway fibs her manner right into a nanny place for the attractive and charismatic Violet and Jay Lockhart, it appears she’s lastly landed her dream job. However little does Sloane know, she’s simply entered a family brimming with secrets and techniques which are about to blow up — with doubtlessly catastrophic penalties for all.
I hear Lohan is predicted to play Violet. She govt produces alongside Aptaker, Berger and Scott Morgan of The Stroll-Up Firm. Stava is a producer. twentieth Tv, a part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio.
This is able to mark Aptaker and Berger’s third sequence for the Disney streamer following Love, Victor and How I Met Your Father, each by means of twentieth TV the place they’ve been for 13 years.
Lohan has a fair longer historical past at Disney. Her first 5 motion pictures — theatrical and TV ones — have been all on the firm, The Father or mother Lure (1998), ABC’s Life-Dimension (2000), Disney Channel’s Get a Clue (2002), Freaky Friday (2003) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (February 2004). Her largest American TV sequence function so far was additionally at Disney, a four-episode arc on ABC’s Ugly Betty, which was produced by ABC Studios, now a part of twentieth Tv.
She not too long ago returned to the Walt Disney Studios for the upcoming Freakier Friday sequel, in theaters on Aug. 8. Lohan, who starred within the Netflix 2025 vacation film Our Little Secret, is repped by IAG, Dave Feldman and Imaginative and prescient PR.
Rely My Lies is Stava’s debut novel. Revealed by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on March 4, it was the GMA E book Membership decide for March. She is repped by CAA and Elisabeth Weed at The E book Group.
Aptaker and Berger served as govt producers and co-showrunners alongside creator Dan Fogelman on twentieth Tv’s hit NBC drama sequence That is Us. In addition they developed and govt produce the HIMYM spinoff sequence, How I Met Your Father, and have been creators and govt producers of Love, Victor. Aptaker and Berger are repped by CAA, Leisure 360, and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
