Tracy Oliver has yet another series in the works. The “Girls Trip” scribe’s “First Wives Club” reboot has been renewed for a second season on BET+ and she’s already received a straight-to-series order from Amazon for an untitled comedy about four friends who met as students at NYU. Now word comes that she’s developing a thriller for Amazon Studios, Topic Studios, and PKM Productions. Deadline confirmed the news.
Titled “Savannah,” the series is based on Sarah Pinborough’s book “Dead to Her.” The story follows “two outsider women, one Black and one white, who marry into a moneyed and closed Southern society and the twisted choices they make to protect their secrets and survive a judgmental world that wants to tear them down.”
Oliver, who is under first-look deal with Topic, is co-writing “Savannah” alongside Joey Falco (“Charmed”).
The source notes that Oliver became “the first Black woman to write a film that grossed over $100 million” with 2017’s “Girls Trip.” Her other writing credits include “The Sun Is Also a Star,” “Little,” and “Barbershop: The Next Cut.” She co-wrote “Little” with Tina Gordon and “Barbershop: The Next Cut” with Kenya Barris. According to Deadline, a “Girls Trip” sequel is in the works “with Oliver having written a treatment for it” and she’s also “reported to be writing the ‘Clueless’ reboot.”
“Just a few years ago when I was starting out there were so few black women screenwriters, so I didn’t really have anybody to reach out to,” Oliver told Entertainment Weekly. “I didn’t have this community of women to reach out to and it was really hard and frustrating.” She emphasized, “I’m doing the mentoring and the advocating that I wish I had.”