Lucy Liu is currently working on a new television project. The “Elementary” and “Why Women Kill” star is set to topline a limited series based on Stephen King’s “Later.” Blumhouse Television acquired the rights to the bestselling novel and Raelle Tucker wrote the pilot, Deadline announced.
Published last year, “Later” “centers around a literary agency owner, Tia, who is raising her son Jamie alone, and who finds herself on the brink of professional ruin when her star author client dies before turning out the work that will make her agency financially whole,” the source details. “Jamie has the supernatural ability to talk to the dead, all of whom tell him the truth. This is very helpful when he talks to the dead author and feeds the contents of the book to his mother, who writes it herself and publishes it under the author’s name, to great success. This gift can be used for even more sinister purposes. Tia’s police detective girlfriend figures out what the boy can do, and soon the youth gets over his head in the spirit world, as Danny Torrance did in King’s ‘The Shining.’”
Tucker, who also serves as series creator, said, “’Later’ is terrifying and touching and wonderfully weird – of course it is – it’s Stephen King. Adapting one of my favorite writers of all time, with an incredible partner like Blumhouse, is a dream come true.”
Tucker received an Emmy nomination for producing “True Blood.” “Jessica Jones” and “The Returned” are among her other credits. She previously worked with Blumhouse on “Sacred Lies” and “Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones.”
Liu portrayed Dr. Joan Watson on “Elementary” for seven seasons and starred in the first season of anthology series “Why Women Kill”; she also directed episodes of both series. Her recent on-screen credits include “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Death to 2021.” You can see Liu next year in DC blockbuster “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”
Source: Women And Hollywood