'Sharp Objects’ with Amy Adams [HBO]

[Fallen Angel]

Amy Adams to Star in Gillian Flynn's 'Sharp Objects’ http://bit.ly/1VtwJZQ

Amy Adams is heading to the small screen.


The actress has signed on to star in Sharp Objects, the adaptation of the book by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.



Dallas Buyers Club's Jean-Marc Vallee has also signed on to direct the high-profile WME package, which is being shopped to cable and streaming outlets by Entertainment One and Blumhouse Productions.


Published in 2006, Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams) — fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital — who faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille hardly has spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful 13-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims — a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story — and survive this homecoming.


The drama was optioned five years earlier by Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions (The Jinx, The Normal Heart) — before Gone Girl became a worldwide phenomenon. The drama is being written and exec produced by Marti Noxon (UnREAL, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce). Noxon will exec produce alongside Flynn. Vallee will also exec produce and direct. Blumhouse's Blum and Charles Layton will also exec produce, with Nathan Ross attached as a co-EP. Noxon is set as showrunner.

The drama, first announced in July 2014, marks an extension of eOne's relationship with Blumhouse, where they previously partnered to produce features Sinister and Insidious. The banner's TV credits include Syfy's Ascension, MTV's Eye Candy and ABC's The River.

https://t.co/pl5lD4iReg

 

[Hunter Rider]

Sounds interesting, where will it air?

 

[flickchick85]

They don't know yet. Says it's being shopped around. I just wonder if it's gonna be a series or mini-series.

 

[Hunter Rider]

They don't know yet. Says it's being shopped around. I just wonder if it's gonna be a series or mini-series.

I imagine a mini as I doubt Amy has plans to commit to a series.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, that was my first thought too, but I don't think they usually use the word "showrunner" for a mini-series. Could be wrong, but that's what has me wondering.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Have to know where it is airing, before I get too excited. Always good to have more Amy though.

 

[kvz5]

Get that Emmy, Amy!

I haven't read this yet but I remember reading a list of Gillian's best twists and this one was on top. It bodes well too that she's writing the screenplay so hopefully this will be more Gone Girl than Dark Places.

 

[Fallen Angel]

The book is dark from the bits I remember reading a while back. Will have to re read the whole thin now though. But this is a darker plot than Gone Girl or Dark Places.

I also think it will be a mini series. Something like 8 episode season like True Detective or something.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Yeah, that was my first thought too, but I don't think they usually use the word "showrunner" for a mini-series. Could be wrong, but that's what has me wondering.

Well I'd be all for 13 weeks of Amy.

 

[Pyrox]

funny, I imagined her in my head when I was reading Dark Places
though with how that movie turned out...better for her lol

the plot definitely lends itself to a series rather than a movie, so I'm pumped

 

[Fallen Angel]

Amy was rumoured for the main role in 'Dark Places' and was in negotiations before she dropped out and Charlize came on board.

So the FlynnGirls consist of Rosamund Pike, Charlize Theron and Amy Adams. That's not a bad trio.

 

[The Shape]

I read the book and enjoyed it quite a bit more than Dark Places, actually. Definitely looking forward to this.

 

[Fallen Angel]

This interview was done last October and it reveals why Gillian wanted to do a TV show instead of it being a feature film. http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2015/10/gillian-flynn-new-novel

Your book Sharp Objects is being adapted for television. What's the status of the project?

GF: It's in the very early stages right now. We're hoping to package it to shop around as a limited series early next year and to film next fall. That's our hope. Marti Noxon, who did Buffy the Vampire Slayer and my favorite show of the summer UnREAL, which I'm completely obsessed with—she wrote the first script.


Gone Girl and Dark Places became movies. Why was TV a better fit for Sharp Objects?

GF: Part of it was just that such great work is being done on TV right now, and the idea that a novel matches TV. You can spread out and take your time the same way you do with a novel—you don't have to be as precise and concise as you do with a film. Sharp Objects was my first book, and I was afraid that doing it as a film and pushing it all together in two hours would turn it into a horror film instead of a psychological thriller. The story is as much about who this narrator is and what has happened to her as it is a whodunit.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Vallee say's this will be an 8 episode series. The original interview is in French though. http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2181d4ed-2c8f-4478-b27d-be9c8e6e3c6c|_0.html

Translated version.

After Big Little Lies, Jean-Marc Vallée will tackle Sharp Objects, another prestigious series for the small screen, including the headliner will be Amy Adams. It is not known yet who will be the broadcaster of this adaptation in eight episodes of the novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) published in 2006. The story is built around a journalist who, after briefly undergone psychiatric treatment, must achieve a reportage in his hometown, where two teenage girls missing. Marti Noxon (Unreal, Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce) wrote the screenplay. Amy had offered me this project a while ago, but he was not really ready then, notes the filmmaker. Meanwhile, Reese is landed with his. To me, all of the content, of course, but also what motivates me, it's the people I work with. The sandbox is very beautiful, but it is also very important to know who will play in with you. For its part, Amy offers me something I've never really explored. I have never gone so far in the drama. It is very dark, very special

 

[Fallen Angel]

Gone to HBO

HBO Orders ‘Sharp Objects’ Drama Series Starring Amy Adams http://deadline.com/2016/04/sharp-objects-hbo-drama-series-amy-adams-star-eone-marti-noxon-1201728892/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter …

In a very competitive situation, Sharp Objects, the high-profile drama series project starring Amy Adams, which was taken out by Entertainment One and Blumhouse in February, has landed at HBO with an 8-episode straight-to-series order.

Noxon wrote the pilot script based on the book and will serve as showrunner and writer. Flynn is set to write multiple episodes.

Vallée will direct all episodes, just as he did on HBO’s upcoming limited series Big Little Lies starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. He also will co-edit Sharp Objects.

 

[Shifty]

HBO's development has been in trouble of late, this will fill 2 months of programming as they try to launch other ongoing dramas.

Two David Fincher shows were in production (one written by Gillian Flynn) and then were cancelled, Westworld had a troubled and extended production - still has no premiere date, Vinyl has been a financial/ratings disaster and True Detective season 3 could happen in 2018 - the last year Game of Thrones is likely to air.

Good luck to them.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Jean Marc Vallée talked about the show while promoting his next feature 'Demolition'. http://bit.ly/204OFwh

I am so thrilled and excited to be with HBO again for “Sharp Objects.” With Bob Jakes, Gillian and Marty and Amy Adams. I am such a fan of the book, it’s such a special one. Different than “Demolition” and if Amy is ready to play this character and to do this I want to accompany her and have fun with her in this sandbox.

I’ve never attacked this kind of material, it’s so dark but it’s also about family relationships and it’s so human. The humanity in it is so touching but also so troubling so there’s something so troubled about the world she depicted in this family. I never knew I was going to make two TV series back to back, “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects.” We’re not treating them like TV series, I’m just making another feature film but just longer and of course, “This is not TV, this is HBO.”

 

[Eddie Dean]

I'd like to give Amy Adams my sharp object, if you know what I mean.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Start's shooting in March

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/girlfriends-guide-divorce-end-season-917508.

Noxon has HBO miniseries Sharp Objects starring Amy Adams in the queue, too. The high-profile project, written by Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn, is set to start production in Los Angeles in March, just as Noxon wraps Girlfriends' Guide.

 

[Boy Scout]

I haven't finished the book yet, but it's very interesting. I can't wait to see Adams bring the lead character to life.

 

[Fallen Angel]

HBO have started casting for it now. http://ewpacts.org/casting-notices/call-for-hbo-firefly-casting/

HBO and Firefly Casting are looking for girls ages 13 - 17 for roles in the upcoming HBO series ‘Sharp Objects’.

NO PRIOR ACTING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

You do not need to be based in California to be considered for these roles.

‘Sharp Objects’ is an HBO series based on the best selling novel by Gillian Flynn (‘Gone Girl’) and adapted by Marti Noxon (‘UnREAL’, ‘Code Black’, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer’). It will star Amy Adams and will film in California from March to July 2017.


On-set tutoring would be provided and no school work would be missed. For those who do not live in Los Angeles, housing and expense money would be provided for the child and parent / guardian.


We are looking for the following roles:



AMMA


Female, 13 to a young-looking 18, to play 13-14. Amma is the 13-year-old half-sister of Camille (Amy Adams). Having grown up in the small town of Wind Gap, Missouri, she lives a double life: as a restrained and girlish daughter when at home with her parents, and as a brash, impetuous teenager when out withfriends. Actress does not need to bear a strong family resemblance to Amy Adams.


YOUNG CAMILLE


Female, 13 to young-looking 18 to play 13-14. Must resemble a young Amy Adams. ‘Young Camille’ has an intensity and an adventurous streak. She’s also showing early signs of a real taste for alcohol and sexual promiscuity.

 

[harlequinade]

I'd so love to see Pfeiffer in the mother role

 

[Fallen Angel]

Amy briefly mentioned SO, during a press junket interview for Arrival with a newspaper journalist.
http://www.philly.com/philly/column...Animals___aliens__acting_and_being_a_mom.html

Next up, Adams is set to start work in the spring on the HBO series Sharp Objects, based on the best-selling mystery by Gillian (Gone Girl) Flynn. Jean-Marc Vallee, who yelled "Action!" at Reese Witherspoon in Wild and at Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, will direct.


Adams will play Flynn's troubled protagonist, Camille Preaker, a reporter who returns to her small hometown to cover the murder of two preteen girls - and also to grapple with some serious psychological issues of her own.


"As the mystery unfolds, you find out stuff about her family and delve into her past," Adams said. "You know, a nice light little piece of fiction."

 

[Fallen Angel]

Amy say's True Detective inspired her to look into doing a limited series and Sharp Objects does have Season 1 TD vibes if you've read the books.

http://www.screendaily.com/features...rds-duo-and-her-return-to-tv/5111406.article#

In the upcoming Sharp Objects, an eight-episode HBO thriller directed by Villeneuve’s Québécois contemporary Jean-Marc Vallée, Adams will play a troubled reporter covering the small-town murders of two pre-teen girls.


It was HBO’s True Detective that opened Adams’ eyes to “the opportunity to create limited-run characters. And there are so many wonderful female roles on television. To develop [a character] over the course of that many weeks is going to be very strange for me,” she concedes.


“And the pace of filming is going to be really thrilling. A lot of times [in features], you’re hanging on to all this emotion while it takes hours to film one scene. You don’t have that luxury in television, so I’m curious to see what kind of work that will generate.”

 

[Fallen Angel]

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/n...gone-girl-writer-will-be-dark-and-unsettling/

Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl was transformed from hit novel to blockbuster movie - but the next adaptation of her work is heading to HBO rather than the multiplexes.
So why was Sharp Objects - Flynn's 2006 book - best suited for television? Executive producer Jason Blum revealed all to Digital Spy...
"We optioned that book five years ago - and it was before Gone Girl and before Gillian Flynn was Gillian Flynn," Blum explained.

"We optioned it and anticipated making a film... and then I had an early meeting with [producer] Marti Noxon."


Sharp Objects follows Camille Preaker, a newspaper journalist who must return to her hometown to report on a series of brutal murders.
It was Buffy veteran and UnREAL executive producer Noxon who had the idea of making the novel into a TV series.
"She pitched her version of it as a television series and I was super compelled by that," Blum revealed. "So we changed course - and it was very hard to change course, I'll tell you that!


"It would have been easier to do today, but three or four years ago when we changed course to a television show, it was a controversial thing to do.
"I'm really excited - I think it's going to be a great piece of television programming and I think it's going to be a much better series than it would have been a movie."


Blum promised that the series version of Sharp Objects - which will star five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams in the lead - will "definitely feel dark" since it retains many of the original book's "unsettling themes".
"The scripts are super compelling - it's programming that you have to keep watching," he promised.