Sharp Objects - Amy Adams to Star in Gillian Flynn Adaption Ordered by HBO

Update: Sharp Objects has now been ordered to series by HBO.

HBO has scored a major TV package.

The premium cable network has landed Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The cabler has picked up the drama with an eight-episode order. Sharp Objects will be an ongoing drama series, with the potential for a second season.

The the adaptation of the book by Gone Girl author Flynn hails from Entertainment One and Blumhouse Productions. Dallas Buyers Club's Jean-Marc Vallee will direct the high-profile WME package, which was shopped to cable and streaming. He'll also co-edit the series.

Published in 2006, Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams) — fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital — who faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille hardly has spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows, a beautiful 13-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims — a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story — and survive this homecoming.

The drama was optioned five years ago by Jason Blum's Blumhouse (The Jinx, The Normal Heart) — before Gone Girl became a worldwide phenomenon. The project is being written by Marti Noxon (UnREAL, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce). Flynn will also exec produce and pen multiple episodes. Noxon will serve as showrunner and exec produce. Vallee will also exec produce and direct. Blum, Charles Layton and Jessica Rhoades will also exec produce, with Nathan Ross also attached as an executive producer.

Sharp Objects marks the latest package to land at HBO. The cabler also scored Reese Witherspoon/Nicole Kidman starrer Big Little Lies and famously outbid rivals for True Detective, the latter of which came packaged with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Source:

The Hollywood Reporter

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Thanks to johnhelvete for the heads up.

Entertainment One has taken out Sharp Objects, a marquee drama series package based on a book by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn that includes Amy Adams as star, UnReal co-creator Marti Noxon as showrunner, Wild helmer Jean-Marc Vallée as director and Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Sinister) as an executive producer. I hear the project is being shopped to cable and streaming networks. eOne, which serves as a studio on the show, declined comment.

The serialized drama is an adaptation of Flynn’s debut thriller novel Sharp Objects. It originated as a feature years ago at Alliance Films, which had optioned the book for Blumhouse with Adams rumored to star. Alliance was acquired by eOne a couple of years ago. Meanwhile, the project, shepherded by Blumhouse, morphed into a TV series.

Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams) who, fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, is sent to her small hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls where she has to reconnect with her estranged mother and half-sister.

Noxon, who also created Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, wrote the pilot script based on the book and will serve as showrunner. Flynn will be a writer on the potential series. The two executive produce with Adams, Vallée, who is currently working on HBO’s Big Little Lies, and Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum and Charles Layton. Nathan Ross is a co-executive producer. At Blumhouse, the project is overseen by head of TV Jessica Rhoades.

Source:

Deadline

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