EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is creating a function adaptation of None of This Is True, the psychological thriller novel from #1 New York Instances bestselling writer Lisa Jewell, sources inform Deadline. Eleanor Burgess (Perry Mason) has been tapped to pen the script.
Netflix gained rights to the e-book in a aggressive state of affairs that concerned a number of presents out of the U.S. and UK. Actress and producer Molly Sims (Kinda Pregnant) and Fashionable Magic are hooked up to supply, with Jewell exec producing. Gaby McCormick, who introduced the mission in, will co-produce by means of Fashionable Magic.
Revealed by Simon & Schuster final July, None of This Is True follows in style podcaster Alix Summer time, who whereas celebrating her forty fifth birthday at her native pub, crosses paths with an unassuming girl known as Josie Truthful. Josie, it seems, can also be celebrating her forty fifth birthday. They’re, the truth is, birthday twins.
A couple of days later, Alix and Josie stumble upon one another once more, this time outdoors Alix’s kids’s faculty. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she is perhaps an attention-grabbing topic for her sequence. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of nice adjustments in her life. Josie’s life seems to be unusual and sophisticated, and though Alix finds her unsettling, she will be able to’t fairly resist the temptation to maintain making the podcast.
Slowly, she begins to comprehend that Josie has been hiding some very darkish secrets and techniques, and earlier than she is aware of it, Josie has inveigled her method into Alix’s life — and into her residence. However, as rapidly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Solely then does Alix uncover that Josie has left a horrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has develop into the topic of her personal true crime podcast, along with her life and her household’s lives below mortal menace.
Seeing her works revealed in over 25 languages and promote over 10 million copies worldwide, Jewell’s first novel, Ralph’s Occasion, emerged because the best-selling debut novel of the 12 months upon its publication in 1999. Since then, she has revealed one other 21 novels, with a latest give attention to darkish psychological thrillers, as with Then She Was Gone, The Household Upstairs and None of That is True. Up subsequent, she is going to launch Breaking the Darkish: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel, the primary e-book in a brand-new Marvel Crime fiction sequence for adults.
Greatest recognized for writing on HBO’s Perry Mason and Apple TV+’s WeCrashed, Burgess additionally wrote on and served as co-producer of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire.
Most just lately coming aboard to supply Netflix comedy Kinda Pregnant starring Amy Schumer, Sims has beforehand been seen in reveals like Las Vegas and movies like Sure Man. Moreover, she co-hosts the podcast Lipstick on the Rim alongside finest buddy Emese Gormley, there overlaying subjects starting from magnificence and wellness to the navigating of private challenges.
Based in 2021 by Oscar winner Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and former MGM Co-President of Manufacturing Adam Rosenberg, media firm Fashionable Magic is targeted on creating occasion leisure throughout animation and live-action. Since its launch, the corporate has arrange tasks with Columbia Photos, Fox, Sony Photos Animation, Illumination, Interscope, Warner Brothers, Skydance, Picturestart, FX, Sony Photos Tv, and twentieth Tv. Moreover, it has a first-look animated broadcast take care of Fox and a first-look live-action function take care of Sony Photos.
Jewell is repped by UTA and The Curtis Brown Group; Sims by UTA, Linden Leisure, and Schreck Rose; Rothman by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; and Rosenberg by UTA.