EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Dexter: Authentic Sin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has come on board to star in and govt produce Dangerous Summer season Individuals, a TV collection adaptation of the bestselling novel by Emma Rosenblum. Cara DiPaolo (No Good Deed) will write and govt produce the venture, produced by Linden Productions (Household Change) and A+E Studios (The Lincoln Lawyer) which is able to develop it internally earlier than taking it out to consumers. Additionally govt producing are Riva Marker and Deanna Barillari with Linden Productions, and JoAnne Colonna.
Dangerous Summer season Individuals, which has drawn comparisons to The White Lotus, is ready within the idyllic fictional city of Salcombe, Hearth Island, and follows a sequence of life shattering occasions when a physique is found off the facet of the boardwalk. The collection will probably be centered on frenemies and grasp manipulators, Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker. They, alongside their husbands, childhood buddies Sam and Jason, have summered collectively on the island for years, however this summer season every little thing will come to a head as lifelong grudges and secrets and techniques are unearthed.
“Dangerous Summer season Individuals is a deliciously sharp and addictive collection. Emma’s novel virtually leapt off the web page, and in Cara’s arms—alongside a dream staff of producers at Linden and the enduring Sarah Michelle Gellar—it turns into one thing much more unforgettable,” stated Tana Jamieson, Co-Head/EVP Artistic Affairs, A+E Studios. “That is the form of daring, premium storytelling we’re proud to champion at A+E Studios.”
Gellar is recurring on the Showtime collection Dexter: Authentic Sin and is ready to proceed on the upcoming second season. Identified for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she’s going to reprise her titular function within the Buffyverse Hulu pilot from twentieth Tv and Searchlight TV, directed by Chloé Zhao. She is repped by CAA, Linden Leisure and Yorn Levine Barnes.
DiPaolo was most just lately a co-executive producer on the Netflix collection No Good Deed. Her credit additionally embody Netflix’s Useless To Me, AppleTV+’s Bodily, Hulu’s Informal, Amazon’s One Mississippi, HBO’s Togetherness and Showtime’s The Large C. DiPaolo is repped by UTA and Gang Tyre.
Dangerous Summer season Individuals was revealed in 2023 by Macmillan. Rosenblum can be the bestselling writer of Very Dangerous Firm. Her subsequent e-book, Imply Mothers, will probably be releaed by Macmillan on July 29, 2025. Rosenblum, who beforehand served as Chief Content material Officer at Bustle Digital Group, is repped by CAA.
