Nicole Kidman is working on yet another TV project. The “Big Little Lies” star and producer is already developing television adaptations of “The Expatriates,” “The Female Persuasion,” “Truly Madly Guilty” — and now there’s word she’s bringing Cecelia Ahern’s upcoming collection of short stories to the small screen. According to a press release, Kidman will exec produce “Roar” and “GLOW” creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch will serve as showrunners.
The project will be a collaboration between Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, producer/literary agent Theresa Park (“The Best of Me”), and Ahern’s Greenlight Go Productions. Ahern, Flahive, Mensch, Kidman, Saari, Papandrea, Park, and Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky will join Kidman as EPs.
“Roar” hits bookshelves in the UK this November via HarperCollins UK, and will be released in the U.S. in April 2019 through Grand Central Publishing. The volume’s 30 stories each feature “a woman exploring a different absurd contradiction or issue in her life — a sometimes comic, always moving look at the guilt, joys, humiliation, and triumphs that define the modern woman’s experience, including the private moments when she feels the need to roar.”
“I’m incredibly honored to be working with this phenomenal team in bringing ‘Roar’ from the page to the screen,” said Ahern. “The women in this collection have lived and breathed with me for so very long, I’m excited to begin the next journey of amplifying their voices.”
Two of Aherns previous books, “P.S. I Love You” and “Where Rainbows End,” have been made into films. She co-created, produced, and wrote for the Christina Applegate sitcom “Samantha Who?”
Kidman recently joined the cast of Fox News sexual harassment drama “Fair and Balanced.” You can see her next in Karyn Kusama’s police drama “Destroyer,” set to premiere at TIFF this September and hitting theaters Christmas Day, and in Season 2 of “Big Little Lies.” Andrea Arnold will direct every episode of the HBO hit’s second run.
Flahive and Mensch showrun women’s wrestling dramedy “GLOW,” which has been renewed for a third season. The duo previously collaborated on “Nurse Jackie.”
