EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Biel has departed the Peacock restricted collection The Good Daughter, a psychological suspense thriller she was set to star in and govt produce. Particulars concerning her exit are unknown.
A search is at present underway for an actor to play Charlotte Quinn — the function Biel was connected to — with a substitute anticipated to be named quickly.
Based mostly on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novel of the identical identify, The Good Daughter was picked up straight-to-series by the NBCU streaming service in March, with Slaughter writing all episodes and govt producing the undertaking from Fifth Season and Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Tales.
In The Good Daughter, sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn have spent the final twenty-eight years attempting to piece collectively the lives that had been fractured by a single evening of violence. When one other assault splinters the small city of Pikeville, Charlotte is the primary witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s pressured to confront her personal demons because the case twists by one surprising revelation after one other. In the long run, each she and Samantha discover themselves questioning if the value of being the great daughter was price it in spite of everything.
Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver will govt produce for Fifth Season-based Made Up Tales.
Biel not too long ago accomplished work on the Prime Video collection The Higher Sister, a thriller based mostly on the novel by Alafair Burke. She and Elizabeth Banks play estranged siblings, Chloe and Nicky, respectively, who’re looking for their manner again to at least one one other. Biel and Banks additionally served as govt producers on the undertaking.
