Amazon Teaming With Blumhouse to Adapt THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH From Podcast to Drama Series

Amazon has announced that they are set to adapt the popular, highly-rated podcast The Horror Of Dolores Roach into a series at the streamer. They will be teaming with Blumhouse, who won the rights to the podcast last year, which is based on the one-woman play Empanada Loca. The play was co-written by Dara Resnik and Aaron Mark, and starred Daphne Rubin-Vega, “who broke through in the Broadway production of Rent and is set to star in feature In The Heights.” Mark is writing the script for the series.

Here’s the synopsis for the story:

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a grotesque Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of Eat or Be Eaten; a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. It follows the indomitable Dolores Roach, who returns to a New York City neighborhood that has changed drastically during the sixteen years she has been in prison. Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, Dolores is recognized only by an old stoner friend, Luis, who gives Dolores room and board and lets her give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his dilapidated empanada shop.

When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, ‘Magic Hands Dolores’ is driven to extremes to survive — leaving in her wake a string of strangled massage clients. In the face of unexpected professional success, Dolores and Luis become dangerously symbiotic, and Luis must unleash his own particular predilections.

This sounds like a dark and crazy story! It will be interesting to see how it’s cast and how it’s received. Does this sound like a series you might be interested in?

via: Deadline