HBO is reportedly growing a restricted sequence based mostly on “Gone Lady” and “Sharp Objects” creator Gillian Flynn’s 2009 novel “Darkish Locations”.
Flynn and Brett Johnson (“Ray Donovan”) will function co-creators, writers, and co-showrunners on the sequence with Guerrin Gardner (“Escape at Dannemora”) additionally co-creating and writing.
The story follows Libby Day, a lady whose mom and sisters had been murdered within the well-known 1985 ‘Devil Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas’ incident. She survived and testified that her teenage brother, Ben, was the killer.
Twenty-five years later, a pair of mom/daughter true crime ‘detectives’ find a grownup Libby and pump her for particulars, believing Ben is harmless. Libby, hoptng to show a revenue off her tragic historical past, reconnects with these concerned in that evening when the unimaginable fact emerges.
The property was beforehand tailored for the display screen because the 2015 movie starring Charlize Theron because the grownup Libby, Corey Stoll as grownup Ben together with Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan and Chloë Grace Moretz. Critics extensively lambasted the film which scored dismal opinions and made simply $5.1 million on the box-office.
Theresa Kang, Caroline Garity, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi government produce.
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