Netflix is closing out the summer season by bringing a bestselling seaside learn to the small display screen. According to Deadline, an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s “The Perfect Couple” is being developed as a restricted collection on the streamer. Actress-writer-producer Jenna Lamia (“Resident Alien”) is credited as creator, showrunner, and govt producer.
Published in 2018, “The Perfect Couple” is a homicide thriller following Celeste Otis “who, on the Fourth of July, is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family on Nantucket,” the supply teases. “But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect.”
The six-episode adaptation hails from 21 Laps and The Jackal Group. Hilderbrand can also be among the many EPs.
Projects primarily based on Hilderbrand’s “The Hotel Nantucket” and “28 Summers” are within the works as properly. The former is being developed as a collection at Warner Bros. Television and MRC Film is adapting the latter for the massive display screen.
Lamia wrote the upcoming Amazon horror-comedy “My Best Friend’s Exorcism,” which shall be out there on Prime Video September 30. She additionally served as affiliate producer on the function. She has written for and produced collection together with “Good Girls,” “No Tomorrow,” and “Awkward.” You can catch her as Judy in Syfy’s “Resident Alien,” and she penned the Season 2 episode “Girls’ Night.” Lamia counts “Legend Quest: Masters of Myth” and “Awkward.” amongst her different appearing credit.
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