WONDER WOMAN Director Patty Jenkins Will Reteam With Chris Pine For New Series ONE DAY SHE'LL DARKEN
Director Patty Jenkins is set to reteam with Chris Pine on a new limited series called One day She'll Darken. The two recently worked together on Wonder Woman, which turned out to be a huge success.
There are six episodes in the TNT series and Jenkins is set to direct the pilot episode, may more. As for Pine, he will star in all six episodes. The series was written by Jenkins’ husband, writer Sam Sheridan, who is the author of A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries. Deadline offers the following story details:
One Day She’ll Darken tells the story of Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. As Fauna begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery and a suspect in the infamous “Black Dahlia” murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.
Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter/paparazzo. Jay was disgraced over his story about Hodel years ago, but now he sees a glimmer of redemption. This might be the opportunity Jay’s been hopelessly waiting for, but inside this riddle lies a moral quandary he never expected: a labyrinth into the evil in men’s hearts that will shake the unsteady Jay to his foundations.
This sounds like a fascinating story that will make for a great series. Sarah Aubrey, EVP Original Programming for TNT, had this to say in a statement:
“Patty Jenkins is a phenomenally talented director who has always delivered powerful characters, from the unforgettable true-life serial killer in Monster to the game-changing superhero warrior in Wonder Woman. One Day She’ll Darken is a mind-boggling true mystery with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat chills. Sam Sheridan, an expert storyteller, has delivered scripts that entertain, frighten and tell tales of redemption and a powerful search for identity. Chris Pine has wowed us with so many of his performances, and knowing how multi-dimensional his character is in One Day She’ll Darken, we are so lucky to have an actor as talented as he is to lead this cast.”
I'll be looking forward to watching this.