EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Tv has optioned writer and theater critic Alexis Soloski’s bestselling novel Right here within the Darkish for scripted sequence growth.
Megan Abbott, the New York Instances bestselling writer, co-creator and showrunner of the hit sequence Dare Me, will function each EP and author.
Two-time Fleishman Is in Bother Emmy nominee Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins as EP, reteaming with that FX sequence producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.
Right here within the Darkish, revealed by Flatiron Books, is a darkish and classy novel of psychological suspense a few younger theater critic drawn right into a harmful sport that blurs the strains between actuality and efficiency.
Abbott herself is a New York Instances bestselling writer of tension-filled narratives, i.e. Beware the Girl, The Turnout, Give Me Your Hand and a number of other different main titles. Her subsequent novel, El Dorado Drive, will probably be launched by Penguin Random Home in June.
She co-created, government produced and served as showrunner for USA Community and Netflix worldwide’s Dare Me, which was primarily based on her bestselling novel. Abbott’s writing has additionally appeared in The New York Instances, The Guardian, The Wall Road Journal and The Los Angeles Instances Journal. Her work has earned quite a few accolades, together with 5 Edgar Awards and the Los Angeles Instances Ebook Prize, amongst many others. Abbott was additionally a author on the HBO sequence The Deuce.
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Brodesser-Akner created the FX restricted sequence Fleishman Is in Bother which was primarily based on her bestselling novel, and racked up seven Emmy noms together with Excellent restricted sequence. As a journalist, her cultural commentary and storytelling has been seen in The New York Instances Journal. Brodesser-Akner just lately wrote the nationwide bestseller Lengthy Island Compromise.
Award-winning producers Timberman and Beverly’s TV sequence canon contains Unbelievable, which earned a number of Emmy nominations, and Masters of Intercourse, which garnered quite a few award nominations. In addition they served as EPs on Fleishman Is in Bother.
New York Instances theater critic and tradition reporter Soloski’s second novel, Flashout, will hit retailer cabinets in August through Flatiron Books.
The information of Right here within the Darkish comes as Lionsgate Tv has myriad high-profile tasks in growth with A-list producers together with Stephenie Meyer, Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Seth Rogen’s Level Gray Footage, LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill, Park-Chan wook and plenty of others.
Soloski is repped by The Gernert Firm and WME. Abbott is repped by Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Company, Nameless Content material, Eric Brooks and WME. Brodesser-Akner is repped by CAA. Timberman & Beverly are repped by UTA and Adam Berkowitz with Lenore Leisure Group.
