EXCLUSIVE: Max has taken in for improvement Your Second Spouse, a soapy, erotic thriller collection primarily based on Laura Van Den Berg’s quick story of the identical identify, from Your Buddies & Neighbors writer-exec producer Jamie Rosengard, Loopy Wealthy Asians co-writer Adele Lim, Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 and Jessica Rothe‘s (Completely satisfied Demise Day) Lil’ State of affairs Productions.
Created by Rosengard, who additionally serves as showrunner and govt producer, Your Second Spouse follows Liana Dunn, an aspiring actress turned highschool theater trainer trapped in stasis on Lengthy Island. Struggling to maneuver on from the dying of her sister, Liana cultivates an unconventional double life that proves too intoxicating for her to surrender… even when it locations her life in imminent hazard.
Rothe found the quick story and introduced it to Sugar23 with the thought of growing it for tv.
Michael Sugar, Ashley Zalta and Margaux Swerdloff govt produce for Sugar23. The venture is produced by Sugar23, Lim and Naia Cucukov’s 100 Tigers and Rothe’s Lil’ State of affairs Productions.
Rosengard is at present a author and govt producer for Jonathan Tropper’s extremely anticipated Apple collection Your Buddies & Neighbors, starring Jon Hamm. It’s set for premiere April 11 and has already been picked up for a second season. She most not too long ago developed the restricted collection Take Me Aside, tailored from the novel by Sara Sligar, for Amazon, Merman, and Scrap Paper Footage, in addition to tasks for Netflix and Freeform.
Lim co-wrote the 2018 screenplay for Loopy Wealthy Asians, which grossed $239 million worldwide, and received the Critics Selection Award for Finest Comedy, together with quite a few different nominations,. She is at present growing a TV collection primarily based on the movie for Warner Bros. Tv and Max. She’s additionally growing and connected to direct The Princess Diaries 3 for Disney, with Anne Hathaway reprising her position. Her TV credit embody EP and showrunner for The CW’s Star-Crossed and co-EP on Non-public Follow, Reign and Deadly Weapon. Lim and Cucukov’s 100 Tigers has a number of tasks in improvement at Amazon/MGM Studios, Max and ABC, amongst others.
Lim is repped by Paradigm and Ginsburg, Daniels, Kallis. Cucukov is repped by Paradigm and Sean Marks. Rosengard is repped by CAA, Leisure 360, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP. Rothe is repped by UTA, Brillstein and Sloane Supply Weber and Dern.
