Nicole Kidman’s new HBO series has found its director. Emmy-winning “Night Manager” helmer Susanne Bier will step behind the camera for all six episodes of “The Undoing,” Variety confirms. Based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2014 novel “You Should Have Known,” the project centers on therapist whose life falls apart.
Described as “living the only life she ever wanted for herself,” Grace (Kidman) has a successful career, a loving husband, and young son. “Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself,” the source hints.
In addition to starring, Kidman is exec producing under her Blossom Films banner along with Blossom Films’ Per Saari. Bruna Papandrea will executive produce via Made Up Stories. The trio also collaborate on HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” Kidman won two Emmy Awards for the first season of the hit murder mystery, one for acting and another for exec producing. “American Honey” helmer Andrea Arnold will direct every episode of the show’s upcoming second season.
It was recently announced that BAFTA will honor Kidman with a career retrospective later this month in London. She can currently be seen in gay conversion drama “Boy Erased,” and her next pic, Karyn Kusama crime thriller “Destroyer, hits theaters December 25.
Bier’s “In a Better World” took home the honor for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars. Her next pic, post-apocalyptic Sandra Bullock-starrer “Bird Box,” hits theaters December 13 and Netflix December 21.