Stranger Issues alum Sadie Sink‘s subsequent TV sequence may have decidedly fewer supernatural parts.
The actress will star in and govt produce a restricted sequence based mostly on Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel The Marriage Plot at FX. Will Arbery (Succession) is adapting the novel, and Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Widow’s Bay) is about to direct.
A24 and FX Productions are behind the sequence. It’s the second FX present Arbery has within the pipeline: He’s additionally writing and govt producing a household drama referred to as Seven Sisters, starring Elizabeth Olsen.
“The Marriage Plot is a perfect fit for FX: ambitious, character-driven storytelling that offers another great opportunity to partner with exceptional artists,” stated Gina Balian, president of FX Leisure. “We look forward to building on our partnerships with Will and Hiro, both of whom are extraordinary talents who we are proud to work with again.”
The Marriage Plot “follows three recent college graduates caught in an all-consuming love triangle as they reconcile their youthful romantic aspirations with looming adulthood and make life-altering choices about love and identity,” the present’s logline reads. Eugenides’ novel was revealed in 2011 and landed on a variety of best-of lists that yr.
Arbery and Murai will govt produce The Marriage Plot with Steven Prinz and Rachel Jacobs for Borderless Footage, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman for Mixture Movies, Eugenides, Sink, and Carver Karaszewski and Claudia Shin for Chum Movies. Yiyi Huang serves as producer.
Sink, who performed Max Mayfield in Netflix’s megahit Stranger Issues, will subsequent be seen in Spider-Man: Model New Day, due in theaters July 31. The Tony Award nominee (for John Proctor Is the Villain) at the moment on stage in London in a manufacturing of Romeo & Juliet with Noah Jupe.
Sink is repped by WME and Imprint. Arbery is repped by CAA, Leisure 360 and Ziffren Brittenham. Murai is repped by UTA and Untitled Leisure. Eugenides is repped by CAA and Lynn Nesbit of Janklow and Nesbit.
