HBO Developing TV Adaptation of Charlize Theron Movie

According to Target Date, HBO is presently developing a miniseries adaptation of Dark Places, based upon Gillian Flynn’s 2009 criminal offense book of the exact same name. In 2015, the tale was very first adjusted right into a movie starring Oscar victor Charlize Theron.

What is Dark Places regarding?

“Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in the famous 1985 ‘Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.’ She survived—and famously testified that her teenage brother, Ben, was the killer,” reviews the main logline. “Twenty-five years later, a pair of mother/daughter true crime ‘detectives’ locate a grownup Libby and pump her for details, believing that Ben is innocent. Libby, having spent her youth working the talk show circuit, hopes to once again turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings —for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist traps, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.”

HBO’s Dark Places collection will certainly be developed and composed by Flynn, Brett Johnson and Guerrin Gardner, with Flynn and Johnson additionally established as showrunners. This notes the Gone Lady writer’s most recent partnership with the costs network after formerly collaborating on the TV adaptation of her 2006 launching unique Sharp Items, which Flynn additionally composed. It will certainly be executive created by Theresa Kang, Caroline Garity, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.