EXCLUSIVE: In a really aggressive scenario with a number of main bidders, Netflix has landed for improvement Useless Letters, a drama starring and government produced by Lucy Hale, Deadline has discovered. An adaptation of Caite Dolan-Leach’s 2017 novel, the venture comes from Unwell Productions, the corporate of Name Her Daddy‘s Alex Cooper, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Leisure.
Written/government produced by Rachel Caris Love (Invitation to a Bonfire) and to be directed/government produced by Liz Friedlander (Shining Vale), Useless Letters is described as an addictive thriller whodunit-meets-psychological thriller centered on a pair of an identical twin sisters, Ava and Zelda, performed by Hale. When Ava returns residence to the household winery within the wake of Zelda’s sudden dying, she should discover out who murdered her beloved twin whereas reckoning with harmful revelations in regards to the girl Zelda had change into in her absence. To complicate issues: Zelda knew she was in severe hazard, so she left behind letters for Ava. Zelda’s cryptic and gut-wrenching “useless letters” ship Ava on a twisted scavenger hunt for the reality — forcing Ava to query everybody she’s ever beloved.
Hale, Love, Friedlander and Dolan-Leach government produce alongside Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Leisure, Brian Morewitz of Morewitz Media, Elissa Leeds of Reel Expertise Administration in addition to Unwell’s principals Cooper and Matt Kaplan and head of TV Mina Lefevre. Jaiden Kaplan will function inventive government for Kapital, which is the studio.
A rep for Netflix declined remark.
The venture originated with Hale, who learn and fell in love with the e-book. She, alongside together with her supervisor Leeds, took it to Kaplan with whom she had been speaking about collaborating for some time.
Useless Letters would mark former Fairly Little Liars star Hale’s return to collection tv the place she most just lately starred in Katy Keene and Ragdoll along with reprising her Wizards of Waverly Place position with a cameo on the sequel, Wizards Past Waverly Place. Her latest movie credit embrace 2024’s Which Brings Me To You and Operating On Empty in addition to the upcoming F*** Marry Kill and White Mars. She is repped by CAA and Leeds at Reel Expertise Administration.
(L-R) Rachel Caris Love and Liz Friedlander
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Love was creator, government producer and showrunner of the AMC collection Invitation to a Bonfire starring Tatiana Maslany. She additionally served as co-executive producer on Bodily. Love received her begin on NBC’s Blindspot, the place she stayed for its total five-season run, rising within the ranks from workers author to co-EP. She is at present co-creating an ensemble crime-soap with Carlton Cuse within the works at Netflix and writing an motion rom-com characteristic for Will Smith. Love is repped by Kaplan Perrone and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Friedlander additionally just lately teamed with Kapital for a vampire comedy starring Paul Wesley, which is in improvement at Fox. She beforehand served as director/government producer on the corporate’s CBS All Entry collection Inform Me a Story and directed episodes of Kapital’s Starz’s horror comedy collection Shining Vale. Friedlander’s credit additionally embrace directing the pilots for The Lincoln Lawyer and The Equalizer, which she additionally government produced, and ABC’s The Rookie. She is repped by CAA and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.
Dolan-Leach is repped by CAA.
At Netflix, Kapital beforehand produced the collection Santa Clarita Food regimen and Merry Glad No matter.
