Sarah Paulson and Krista Vernoff
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Warner Bros. TV has assembled a powerful creative team for the film adaptation of Glennon Doyle’s best-selling book. Unchecked.
Sarah Paulson is set to star in the drama. Grey’s Anatomy and station 19 Showrunner Krista Vernoff will adapt Doyle’s memoir into a film. Warner and Bad Robot, which owns the rights to the book, plan to hand over the project to potential buyers in the coming weeks.
Representatives for Warner Bros. TV and Bad Robot declined to comment.
Jesy Nelson (Apple Little Voice, Waitress: The Musical), Vernoff’s producing partner and husband, Alexander Schmidt, and Andrew Stern (via the trio’s Trip the Light Productions) will also executive produce. Unchecked This will be Vernoff’s first television project since his departure. Glaze and station 19 It is also his first production after ending his overall contract with ABC Signature at the end of the 2022-23 season.
Bad Robot, directed by J.J. Abrams, Unchecked Fast forward to 2020. Nelson and Doyle were set to co-write the first episode at the time. Previously purchased through HBO Max (now Max), it will now be available to a wider range of buyers. Paulson joined the project in 2022 after a personal plea from Doyle. We discussed it on Mr. Doyle’s podcast. I can do difficult things.
Unchecked ‘ was published in March 2020 and became an instant hit, staying at number one in the US for seven weeks. new york times It made it onto the bestseller list and eventually sold over 2 million copies. This memoir explores “the peace and joy you discover when you stop trying to live up to the world’s expectations and start trusting the voice deep within yourself.”
When Bad Robot acquired the rights to the book, Doyle said, “Women are experiencing a moment of collective reckoning.” “We are examining existing models of marriage, parenting, religion, business, sexuality, and politics, and we are burning the old to create a truer, more beautiful life for ourselves, and a more just world for all of us. I decided it was time to imagine.”
Coincidentally, there is currently a series with a different title. Unchecked — and also from Warner Bros. — has landed an order at Netflix. The show is a limited series thriller in which Eric Bana plays a National Park Service officer investigating brutal deaths related to dark secrets both within the park and from his own past.
Bana led Unchecked This is by author Mark L. Smith (Revenant, Midnight Sky) and his daughter, Elle Smith. It also houses Warner-based John Wells Productions. Mark and Elle’s Smith and Bana are executive producers, along with Wells and Erin Jontow of John Wells Productions. Todd Black and Tony Shaw of Escape Artist Entertainment. Steve Lee Jones of Bee Holder Productions. and Cliff Roberts of Syndicate Entertainment.
March 12th 5:27pm Updated details for the second series of titles. Unchecked.
