Aubrey Plaza's EMILY THE CRIMINAL is Getting a TV Series Adaptation

Aubrey Plaza’s 2022 film Emily The Criminal is now getting a TV series adaptation from Legendary Television.

The film’s writer and director John Patton Ford will be an executive producer and will also direct. Plaza will not star in the series, but she will be an executive producer.

The story follows Emily, “who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a shady gig as a ‘dummy shopper,’ buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a handsome and charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi).

“Faced with a series of dead-end job interviews, Emily soon finds herself seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills of black-market capitalism, and increasingly interested in her mentor Youcef. Together, they hatch a plan to bring their business to the next level in Los Angeles.”

Emily The Criminal was a good movie, and I can see why someone would want to adapt it into a series. It could end up being one of those successful shows as the story has that kind of formula that viewers seem to gravitate toward these days.

Source: Deadline