Safeguard your pet bunnies at all expenditures, since yet another Deadly Attraction is underway.
A collection adaptation of the 1987 thriller, which will star Masters of Intercourse alum Lizzy Caplan, has been formally purchased at Paramount+, the streamer declared Thursday.
The primary Deadly Attraction starred Michael Douglas as Dan, a married attorney who has a a single-evening stand with Glenn Close’s Alex though his spouse is out of city, primary Alex to turn out to be dangerously obsessed with Dan immediately after their fling. Caplan will participate in Alex in Paramount+’s reboot, which ideas to convey to its tale via the lens of fashionable attitudes towards robust ladies, identity ailments and coercive regulate. (The part of Dan has nonetheless to be forged.)
Alexandra Cunningham, whose credits consist of Soiled John and Bates Motel, will provide as author, government producer and showrunner on the collection. Kevin J. Hynes, who created the tale with Cunningham, will also exec-make. Deadly Attraction is a single of a number of typical movies likely finding the collection remedy at Paramount+, together with Flashdance, Enjoy Tale, The Parallax Check out and The Italian Work.
Alexandra delivers an amazingly robust and nuanced issue of look at to a tale that turned a cultural phenomenon but has as a result much only been instructed from the male gaze, stated Nicole Clemens, Paramount+’s president of primary scripted collection. Partnered with Kevin, they will provide the upcoming explosive chapter of this tale to a new era with a well balanced eye to the complexities of the human psyche.
In 2019, Caplan performed a likewise legendary film villain for the tiny display screen, portraying nurse Annie Wilkes in Hulu’s Castle Rock collection immediately after Kathy Bates performed the character in the movie Distress. Caplan’s other Tv set credits consist of Celebration Down, Fact Be Informed and, most not too long ago, the animated Netflix collection Within Work, wherever she voices protagonist Reagan Ridley.