Nicole Kidman is teaming up with another woman director for a small screen adaptation of a woman-penned novel. The Oscar and Emmy winner’s upcoming HBO limited series with Susanne Bier, “The Undoing,” was recently pushed back due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the multi-hyphenate is keeping busy and prepping another project. She’s set to topline and produce “Pretty Things,” an adaptation of Janelle Brown’s upcoming thriller of the same names. Amazon scored rights to the series “in a competitive situation with multiple bidders,” Deadline reports. Emmy-winning “Handmaid’s Tale” helmer Reed Morano is attached to direct.
Set to be written by Brown, the series will tell the story of two “brilliant, but damaged women [who] try to survive a game of deceit and destruction. When a reluctant grifter befriends a wealthy ‘influencer’ on the shores of Lake Tahoe, her ultimate con devolves into a raw, treacherous game of long-awaited payback,” the source hints.
Morano, Brown, and Kidman’s Blossom Films co-founder Per Saari are among the project’s exec producers.
Blossom Films has a number of projects in the pipeline, including “The Undoing,” directed by Bier. Originally scheduled to premiere May 10, the adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New York Times bestselling novel “You Should Have Known” will now debut in the fall. The thriller tells the story of a therapist whose life changes overnight when a woman is bludgeoned to death and the police investigating the crime land at her family’s door.
Kidman won an Oscar for “The Hours” and received nods for “Lion,” “Rabbit Hole,” and “Moulin Rouge!” She landed two Emmy Awards for the first season of “Big Little Lies,” one for acting and another for exec producing.
Morano most recently helmed Blake Lively-starrer “The Rhythm Section.” Her upcoming projects include two Amazon series: “The Power” and “Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence.” The former is based on Naomi Alderman’s novel about a world where girls and women develop the power to harness electricity and shock people at will, and the latter is based the New York Magazine story detailing an abusive sex cult that rocked Sarah Lawrence College.
