A new adaptation of author Gillian Flynn’s 2009 novel Dark Places is in development at HBO as a miniseries, according to Variety.
Dark Places will be developed by Flynn, Brett Johnson and Guerrin Gardner who will all serve as the creators, showrunners and writers of the miniseries. The synopsis reads:
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in the famous 1985 ‘Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.’ She survived—and famously testified that her teenage brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, a pair of mother/daughter true crime ‘detectives’ locate a grownup Libby and pump her for details, believing that Ben is innocent. Libby, having spent her youth working the talk show circuit, hopes to once again turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings —for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist traps, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.
Flynn has written three novels and a short story as a professional author with her most famous novel being Gone Girl, which was also adapted into a film starring Ben Affleck and Rosemund Pike from David Fincher. Dark Places was also previously adapted into a film starring Charlize Theron in 2015.
Dark Places reteams Flynn with HBO after the network adapted her debut novel Sharp Objects into a miniseries which featured Amy Adams and Sophie Lillis as the same character at different times of her life.
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