HBO Developing Adaptation of DARK PLACES From The Author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects

HBO is developing a limited series based on the novel Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, the same author behind Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner on the project with Brett Johnson. Guerrin Gardner is also credited as co-creator and writer.

In the story: “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. 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.”

That sounds like a wild story that will make for an interesting series. It’s definitely the kind of story that’s right up HBO’s alley. There’s no doubt that it will attract some big-name actors to star in the series because it’s the kind of project that will have some meaty roles.

Source: Variety