Amy Adams! Gillian Flynn! Murder! HBO has set itself up to wrestle the cultural zeitgeist to the ground like it’s a wild bull this summer by setting an air date for Flynn novel adaptation Sharp Objects.
Sharp Objects will debut on HBO on 8th July stateside. Amy Adams will star as reporter Camille Preaker, who returns to her small hometown to cover the murder of a pre-teen girl and the disappearance of another. As she investigates the crime she is forced to confront the mysteries of her past and comes to identify with the girls a bit too closely.
Here’s a brand new poster…
And here’s the first trailer…
Gillian Flynn is the writer who broke free of the shackles of life as a TV critic (*looks wistfully out the window*) at Entertainment Weekly to write thriller novels Gone Girl, Dark Places, and Sharp Objects. Gone Girl already received the cinematic treatment with a 2014 film directed by David Fincher now Sharp Objects is following in its footsteps at HBO.
Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Elizabeth Perkins and Matt Craven also star
Sharp Objects was the debut novel from Flynn and was well received. It was originally optioned back in 2008 by British director Andrea Arnold but the project never materialised. Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions (the studio behind Paranormal Activity and Get Out) picked it up in 2014 with the intent to turn it into a miniseries with Flynn contributing several scripts. HBO officially greenlit the eight-episode miniseries in 2016.
Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) will direct all the episodes and Marti Noxon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) will serve as showrunner.
This is clearly a big project for HBO as evidenced by all the executive producer cooks in the kitchen: Marti Noxon, Jean-Marc Vallée, Amy Adams, Gillian Flynn, Jason Blum, Nathan Ross, Charles Layton, Jessica Rhoades, Gregg Fienberg, Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold.
More as we have it.