Hillary Swank Will Star in and Produce the Suspense Series BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED
Entertainment One has picked up the rights to Lisa Gardner’s novel Before She Disappeared and Hillary Swank is set to star and executive produce the series adaptation.
The story follows Frankie Elkin, “a recovering alcoholic who travels light and is obsessed with locating missing people whose cases have been dismissed, overlooked, or marginalized.” Here’s a more detailed description from the book:
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her.
Swank will take on the role of Elkin, and it sounds like the kind of role that she’ll slip right into. She is also set to star in and produce an Alaska-set drama pilot for ABC from Spotlight and Stillwater director Tom McCarthy. She most recently starred in and executive produced Away at Netflix.
Source: Deadline