HBO to Develop Gillian Flynn Novel ‘Dark Places’ as Limited Series

Variety exclusively learned that HBO is working on a limited series based on the Gillian Flynn novel "Dark Places."

Flynn will act as co-maker, essayist, and co-showrunner on the undertaking and holds the privileges to the book. Guerrin Gardner will also be credited as co-creator and writer, and Brett Johnson will also serve as co-showrunner, co-creator, and writer. Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity of Blue Marble Pictures will chief produce alongside Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi of Iervolino and Woman Bacardi Amusement.

"Dull Spots" was initially distributed in 2009. The authority logline portrayal states:

"Libby Day was seven when her mom and two sisters were killed in the renowned 1985 'Satan Penance of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She made it through and famously testified that her teen brother Ben was the one who killed her. Twenty-five years later, in the belief that Ben is innocent, a pair of mother-daughter true crime "detectives" locate an adult Libby and press her for information. Once more libby, having spent her childhood working the television show circuit, desires to make money off her appalling history: She'll reconnect with the players from that evening and report her discoveries — for a charge. The unimaginable truth emerges as Libby's search takes her from shabby strip clubs in Missouri to abandoned Oklahoma tourist traps, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.

Should the undertaking proceed, it would be the most recent onscreen transformation of one of Flynn's books. " Dark Places" was previously made into a movie with Charlize Theron in 2015, but it only made $5.1 million worldwide. Flynn recently cooperated with HBO on the restricted series adaptation of "Sharp Articles," which featured Amy Adams and was assigned for different Emmy Grants. Most famously, Flynn wrote the screenplay for the hit movie "Gone Girl," which was based on his novel and starred Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Her other screen credits incorporate "Ideal world" at Amazon and the element film "Widows."

Gardner and Johnson have been married for more than ten years. The Emmy-winning Showtime limited series "Escape at Dannemora" was previously co-created by Johnson. Johnson has additionally composed for shows like "Beam Donovan," "Crazy people," and the Hulu restricted series "Candy." Gardner has composed various short movies like "Chowchilla" and a few others.

Flynn is repped by WME, Levine/Greenberg/Rostan Artistic Organization, Blue Marble The executives, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Johnson is repped by UTA and Yorn Levine. Vanguard Management Group is Gardner's representative.