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Amy Adams Inks First-Look Deal with HBO, Will Exec Produce “Poisonwood Bible” Adaptation

Adams in "Sharp Objects"

It’s unclear whether we’ll actually get another season of “Sharp Objects,” but Amy Adams is definitely sticking around HBO. The six-time Oscar nominee has signed a first-look deal with the cable network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will develop projects for HBO via her new production company, Bond Group Entertainment, which she created with her manager, Stacy O’Neil.

The first item on the Adams/HBO/Bond Group slate is a limited series adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s 1998 novel “The Poisonwood Bible.” Set in 1959, the story centers on Orleanna Price, a missionary wife who travels with her family to the Belgian Congo during a period of colonial upheaval. “What follows is a suspenseful epic of tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction in the interlocked fates of one family and a newly independent African nation,” THR hints.

Adams will executive produce with O’Neil and series writers Kingsolver and Anya Epstein (“The Affair”). No word on whether Adams will star.

“The Poisonwood Bible” will be Adams’ second project as a producer. She exec produced as well as toplined “Sharp Objects,” HBO’s gothic murder mystery. She received a Golden Globe nod for her performance in the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-seller.

You can catch Adams in theaters now as Lynne Cheney in “Vice,” for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. “Justice League,” “Nocturnal Animals,” and “Arrival” are among her other more recent credits. She’ll appear next in thriller “The Woman in the Window,” out October 4.


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