The Higher Sister: Prime Video Greenlights Collection Based mostly on Alafair Burke Novel, Starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks – canceled + renewed TV exhibits, rankings
The Higher Sister is headed to Prime Video. Impressed by the novel by Alafair Burke, the sequence will star Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks who will even be govt producers. Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado are set as showrunners and govt producers for the brand new drama.
The thriller will comply with what occurs when two estranged sisters are introduced again collectively following a homicide.
Prime Video revealed extra concerning the upcoming sequence in a press launch.
At present, Prime Video introduced it has ordered The Higher Sister to sequence from Tomorrow Studios. The sequence stars Emmy award-nominated Jessica Biel (The Sinner, Sweet) and Emmy award-nominated Elizabeth Banks (Name Jane, Pitch Good), who will even function govt producers. Olivia Milch (Ocean’s 8) and Regina Corrado (Mayor of Kingstown) will function showrunners and govt producers on the sequence, with Craig Gillespie (Pam & Tommy) as director and govt producer. The sequence is a co-production between Tomorrow Studios and Amazon MGM Studios. The sequence will premiere solely on Prime Video in additional than 240 international locations and territories worldwide.
The Higher Sister is an electrical thriller, based mostly on the novel by bestselling creator Alafair Burke, who will even be consulting on the sequence, concerning the horrible issues that drive sisters aside and in the end convey them again collectively. Chloe (Biel) strikes by way of the world together with her good-looking lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her facet whereas her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) hustles to make ends meet whereas attempting to remain clear. When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves by way of the household, laying naked long-buried secrets and techniques.
“Past being an attractive thriller filled with twists and turns, The Higher Sister is a gripping story about household feuds and forgiveness,” says Vernon Sanders, head of tv, Amazon MGM Studios. “The sensible duo of Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are positive to convey these characters to life in probably the most genuine means alongside Olivia, Regina, Craig, and the gifted group at Tomorrow Studios. The sequence is in the perfect palms to convey Alafair Burke’s authentic IP to life for our international Prime Video clients.”
“We’re ecstatic to be adapting Alafair Burke’s charming novel right into a tv sequence with Prime Video; this has been a real labor of affection for all the group at Tomorrow Studios,” stated Marty Adelstein, Tomorrow Studios Founder/CEO, and Becky Clements, President/Accomplice. “The intricacies of sisterhood at all ages are a dynamic we’re all excited to discover inside a taut thriller. It’s a privilege to be working with showrunners as gifted as Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado on the primary undertaking in our new enterprise with incomparable director and EP Craig Gillespie. All of us really feel so fortunate to have landed Jessica and Elizabeth as our starring sisters and collaborators – a tour de pressure matchup on this propulsive new sequence.”
“I’m excited to be re-teaming with Tomorrow Studios on this taut psychological thriller,” stated Craig Gillespie, director and govt producer. “After I learn Olivia and Regina’s propulsive scripts, I knew I needed to be part of it, and I couldn’t be extra thrilled to be working with these two world class actresses for the primary time. Watching them as rivaling sisters goes to be a blast.”
“We’re so grateful to Tomorrow Studios for supporting us as we’ve explored the world of this household,” stated Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, govt producers and showrunners. “Craig Gillespie, who tells important and daring tales of individuals keen to go to extremes, introduced the proper imaginative and prescient for the sequence. And we couldn’t really feel luckier to have Jessica and Elizabeth, who’ve awed us with their wealthy and layered work, as companions bringing these sisters and their secrets and techniques to life.”
The premiere date for The Higher Sister will likely be introduced later.
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