Octavia Spencer is collaborating with “Gray’s Anatomy” showrunner Krista Vernoff and “Station 19” author Meghann Plunkett on a Hulu adaptation of Ashley Elston’s upcoming novel, “First Lie Wins.” Now in improvement, the challenge “landed at Hulu and ABC Signature following a bidding warfare,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
A “twisty cat-and-mouse thriller,” “First Lie Wins” is ready for publication early subsequent 12 months. It’s Elston’s first grownup novel.
“Station 19” colleagues Vernoff and Plunkett will reunite to write down and government produce the variation; the previous showruns “Station 19” and the latter has served as author and story editor on the firefighter drama. Plunkett was additionally a narrative editor on Vernoff’s short-lived authorized drama “Insurgent.”
Spencer and Elston are among the many challenge’s EPs as effectively.
Spencer gained an Oscar for her supporting flip in “The Assist” and snagged further nominations for “Hidden Figures” and “The Form of Water.” She exec produces and stars in Apple’s “Reality Be Informed,” which is now taking pictures its third season. Her different current credit embody “Encounter” and “Thunder Power.”
“First Lie Wins” marks Vernoff’s first streaming challenge. She counts “Shameless,” “Personal Observe,” and the unique “Charmed” amongst her many writing-producing credit. She additionally helmed a 2018 episode of “Gray’s Anatomy.”
An award-winning poet, Plunkett is a poetry reader at The New Yorker and a author in residence at Omega Institute.
A prolific YA creator, Elston’s earlier novels embody “The Guidelines for Disappearing” and “10 Blind Dates.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood