A real-life Nancy Drew story is coming to Apple. The streamer has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to a project inspired by Hilde Lysiak, a pre-teen investigative reporter, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
Currently untitled, the mystery drama was created by Dana Fox (“How to Be Single,” “Couples Retreat”) and Dara Resnik (“I Love Dick,” “Jane the Virgin”) and sees its 11-year-old protagonist moving from Brooklyn “to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury,” the source hints.
Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “Now You See Me 2″) will direct.
The project is based on Lysiak, who exposed a murder in her hometown of Selinsgrove, PA and broke the story in her own newspaper, Orange Street News.
Lysiak is co-writing a children’s book series based on her experiences. The third installment of “Hilde Cracks the Case,” “Fire! Fire!” hit shelves in January. She’s collaborating on the books with her father, Matthew Lysiak, a former reporter for The New York Daily News. Her older sister works as her videographer for Orange Street News.
Other shows in development at Apple include Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston’s untitled morning show drama, a comedy about Emily Dickinson with Hailee Steinfeld playing the iconic poet, and Octavia Spencer-starrer “Are You Sleeping,” an exploration of the nation’s obsession with true crime stories.
