Amblin Television Developing Series Adaptation of the Thriller Novel FRIENDS LIKE THESE
Amblin Television has acquired the rights to Kimberly McCreight’s thriller novel Friends Like These, and they will adapt it into a series. McCreight will also come on board to adapt the script.
The story follows five friends “who gather at a picture perfect country house in the Catskills for a co-ed bachelor weekend. It’s been a decade since graduation, but they have remained devoted to one another, forever bound by the mysterious and tragic death of Alice, their sixth member, during senior year. But the ‘bachelor weekend’ is just a front – they’re actually gathering for a staged intervention for Keith, Alice’s college boyfriend, now a successful art dealer caught in a downward spiral of opioid addiction. But Keith’s brought an unexpected guest along for the weekend – his biggest client, a charismatic bad boy named Finch, who senses the fault lines within the group and wastes no time exploiting them to his own benefit.”
Well, that certainly sounds like an intriguing story that is sure to end up being a super uncomfortable situation for for everyone involved.
Amblin’s co-Presidents of Television Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are executive producing the series.
Source: Deadline