EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is creating a function adaptation of None of This Is True, the psychological thriller novel from #1 New York Instances bestselling creator Lisa Jewell, sources inform Deadline. Eleanor Burgess (Perry Mason) has been tapped to pen the script.
Netflix gained rights to the guide in a aggressive state of affairs that concerned a number of gives out of the U.S. and UK. Actress and producer Molly Sims (Kinda Pregnant) and Trendy Magic are hooked up to provide, with Jewell exec producing. Gaby McCormick, who introduced the venture in, will co-produce by way of Trendy Magic.
Printed by Simon & Schuster final July, None of This Is True follows standard podcaster Alix Summer season, who whereas celebrating her forty fifth birthday at her native pub, crosses paths with an unassuming lady known as Josie Honest. Josie, it seems, can be celebrating her forty fifth birthday. They’re, the truth is, birthday twins.
Just a few days later, Alix and Josie stumble upon one another once more, this time exterior Alix’s kids’s college. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she is perhaps an fascinating topic for her collection. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of nice modifications in her life. Josie’s life seems to be unusual and complex, and though Alix finds her unsettling, she will’t fairly resist the temptation to maintain making the podcast.
Slowly, she begins to understand that Josie has been hiding some very darkish secrets and techniques, and earlier than she is aware of it, Josie has inveigled her approach into Alix’s life — and into her dwelling. However, as shortly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Solely then does Alix uncover that Josie has left a horrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has turn out to be the topic of her personal true crime podcast, along with her life and her household’s lives underneath mortal risk.
Seeing her works revealed in over 25 languages and promote over 10 million copies worldwide, Jewell’s first novel, Ralph’s Celebration, emerged because the best-selling debut novel of the yr upon its publication in 1999. Since then, she has revealed one other 21 novels, with a current concentrate on darkish psychological thrillers, as with Then She Was Gone, The Household Upstairs and None of That is True. Up subsequent, she is going to launch Breaking the Darkish: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel, the primary guide in a brand-new Marvel Crime fiction collection for adults.
Finest identified for writing on HBO’s Perry Mason and Apple TV+’s WeCrashed, Burgess additionally wrote on and served as co-producer of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire.
Most not too long ago coming aboard to provide Netflix comedy Kinda Pregnant starring Amy Schumer, Sims has beforehand been seen in exhibits like Las Vegas and movies like Sure Man. Moreover, she co-hosts the podcast Lipstick on the Rim alongside greatest buddy Emese Gormley, there protecting matters starting from magnificence and wellness to the navigating of private challenges.
Based in 2021 by Oscar winner Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and former MGM Co-President of Manufacturing Adam Rosenberg, media firm Trendy Magic is concentrated on creating occasion leisure throughout animation and live-action. Since its launch, the corporate has arrange tasks with Columbia Footage, Fox, Sony Footage Animation, Illumination, Interscope, Warner Brothers, Skydance, Picturestart, FX, Sony Footage Tv, and twentieth Tv. Moreover, it has a first-look animated broadcast cope with Fox and a first-look live-action function cope with Sony Footage.
Jewell is repped by UTA and The Curtis Brown Group; Sims by UTA, Linden Leisure, and Schreck Rose; Rothman by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; and Rosenberg by UTA.
