Exclusive: Independent studio wiip has preemptively acquired An Honest Man, an upcoming novel by Michael Koryta, to develop as a television drama series, with Koryta attached to pen the adaptation.
An Honest Man tells the story of Israel Pike, a man just released from prison for killing his own father, who returns to his ancestral island home in northern Maine and quickly becomes the primary suspect when seven men, including two Senate rivals and the prosecutor who sent Pike to prison, are found dead aboard a yacht drifting offshore. Lt. Jenn Salazar of the Maine State Police takes the lead in the investigation on Salvation Point Island, operating with secrets of her own to protect.
The novel will be published by Mulholland Books July 25, 2023.
wiip’s Paul Lee, Mark Roybal and Nate Winslow will executive produce alongside Koryta.
During his tenure at 20th Century Fox, Roybal acquired Koryta’s Those Who Wish Me Dead...
An Honest Man tells the story of Israel Pike, a man just released from prison for killing his own father, who returns to his ancestral island home in northern Maine and quickly becomes the primary suspect when seven men, including two Senate rivals and the prosecutor who sent Pike to prison, are found dead aboard a yacht drifting offshore. Lt. Jenn Salazar of the Maine State Police takes the lead in the investigation on Salvation Point Island, operating with secrets of her own to protect.
The novel will be published by Mulholland Books July 25, 2023.
wiip’s Paul Lee, Mark Roybal and Nate Winslow will executive produce alongside Koryta.
During his tenure at 20th Century Fox, Roybal acquired Koryta’s Those Who Wish Me Dead...
- 1/12/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Alba is returning to TV. The actor will star in Confessions on the 7:45, a Netflix adaptation of Lisa Unger’s bestselling novel of the same name. Encanto co-director and co-writer Charise Castro Smith is adapting the novel for the small screen. In Confessions on the 7:45, Alba will play a working mom whose life is upended when she meets a stranger on a commuter train, Deadline reports. Her life will unravel and betrayals will be revealed, making her question whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us. “I could not put this book down. The moment I read the line, ‘If you want to keep a secret you must first hide it from yourself,’ I was hooked,” Alba said in a statement. “This book is about trying to bury secrets and the shame we carry until the truth exposes us. I can’t think of...
- 4/9/2022
- TV Insider
Jessica Alba is headed to Netflix with a series based on New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger's novel, "Confessions on the 7:45." Alba will star and Charise Castro Smith will act as showrunner and writer of the "Confessions on the 7:45" adaptation.
"The 7:45" refers to the train in the book's Hitchcockian plot. According to Variety, "Confessions on the 7:45" is "described as a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life."
Alba had her breakthrough role in the Fox series, "Dark Angel," before crossing over into movies like "Sin City" and...
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"The 7:45" refers to the train in the book's Hitchcockian plot. According to Variety, "Confessions on the 7:45" is "described as a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life."
Alba had her breakthrough role in the Fox series, "Dark Angel," before crossing over into movies like "Sin City" and...
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- 4/8/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Jessica Alba will star in a series adaptation of the book “Confessions on the 7:45,” which is currently in development at Netflix.
The show will be based on the Lisa Unger book of the same name. It is described as a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life. As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us.
Charise Castro Smith is set to write the series in addition to serving as showrunner and executive producer. Alba will executive produce in addition to starring. Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst of 3 Arts will also executive produce.
Castro Smith most recently co-directed and co-wrote the screenplay and story for the hit Disney animated film “Encanto,” which recently won the Academy Award for best animated film.
The show will be based on the Lisa Unger book of the same name. It is described as a psychological thriller about a working mom (Alba) who meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life. As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us.
Charise Castro Smith is set to write the series in addition to serving as showrunner and executive producer. Alba will executive produce in addition to starring. Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst of 3 Arts will also executive produce.
Castro Smith most recently co-directed and co-wrote the screenplay and story for the hit Disney animated film “Encanto,” which recently won the Academy Award for best animated film.
- 4/8/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jessica Alba has closed a deal to executive produce and headline a series based on Lisa Unger’s international bestseller Confessions on the 7:45, which is in development at Netflix, sources tell Deadline. Charise Castro Smith, co-writer and co-director of Disney’s Oscar-winning Encanto, is attached to adapt Unger’s novel. She also serves as showrunner and executive produces with Alba and 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst.
Confessions on the 7:45 is a psychological thriller in which a working mom (Alba) meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life. As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us.
Alba, a working mom herself, had a strong reaction when she read Confessions on the 7:45, leading to her involvement in the project.
“I could not put this book down. The moment I read the line,...
Confessions on the 7:45 is a psychological thriller in which a working mom (Alba) meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life. As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us.
Alba, a working mom herself, had a strong reaction when she read Confessions on the 7:45, leading to her involvement in the project.
“I could not put this book down. The moment I read the line,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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