Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has another Netflix pic on the way. She’ll follow up her feature debut, Gina Rodriguez-starrer “Someone Great,” with another comedy for the streamer, “Strangers.” Variety broke the news.
Described as featuring “the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls,” “Strangers” is “inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train'” and will tell the story of “unlikely cohorts Drew (an alpha, ‘It’ girl) and Eleanor (beta, alt girl) who agree to go after one another’s bullies.”
Robinson, who is among the pic’s producers, penned the script with Celeste Ballard. The pair previously collaborated on “Sweet/Vicious,” an MTV comedy series that the former created and the latter wrote for.
Earlier this year word came that Robinson has a TV series in development at Sony Pictures Television inspired by 2000 ballet drama “Center Stage.” She’s also co-writing the script for Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder.”
“It’s so incredibly important for me to hire women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks,” Robinson told us. “We had 74 women in front of and behind the camera [for ‘Someone Great’]. When you’re at the top and you can say this is how I want my crew to look and this is how I want my crew to feel, it’s important that you are able to use that voice and that platform to amplify voices that have not had the opportunity to be in these positions before,” she emphasized.