Two-time Emmy winner Nicole Kidman (The Undoing), nine-time Emmy nom Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan), The White Lotus standout Meghann Fahy, two-time Critics Choice Award winner Dakota Fanning (The Alienist), and the Flora and Son duo of Eve Hewson and Jack Reynor are in various stages of negotiations to star in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, sources tell Deadline.
The limited series, to be directed and exec produced by Emmy winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing), comes from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps.
Netflix declined to comment.The show was previously set up at Fox, which unveiled its move to Netflix and its reconfigured creative team last August. It is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, published by Little, Brown and Company in 2018. It’s a six-episode murder mystery following Nantucket native Celeste Otis, who on the Fourth of July is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family in the area. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect.
Details as to the roles to be played by The Perfect Couple‘s first set of cast members haven’t been disclosed. But the show would reteam Kidman with Bier on the heels of their work together on the HBO crime drama The Undoing, also starring Hugh Grant. Bier also directed and EP’d that series, which was the premium cabler’s most-watched as of 2020. Also back to work with Bier is Fanning, who last teamed with the creative for The First Lady, an Emmy-nominated Showtime series also starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson and more, which Bier directed and exec produced.
21 Laps developed the limited series under their overall deal with Netflix and will produce alongside The Jackal Group. It’s created by showrunner Jenna Lamia, who will exec produce alongside 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Josh Barry, Hilderbrand, and the Jackal Group’s Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady.
Winning her pair of Emmys as the EP and star of the HBO series Big Little Lies, based on Liane Moriarty’s novel, Kidman also recently exec produced and starred in the Hulu miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers, based on the 2018 novel by Moriarty, and prior to that starred in the second season of Jane Campion’s crime drama Top of the Lake for Sundance TV. Additional series on the actress’ upcoming slate include Prime Video’s Expats from The Farewell‘s Lulu Wang and the streamer’s Kay Scarpetta, which has her set to play the title role opposite 2023 Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Paramount+’s CIA drama Lioness from Yellowstone universe architect Taylor Sheridan. Upcoming films for Kidman include Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which has her reprising her DC role as Atlanna, Queen of Atlantis; Prime Video’s thriller Holland, Michigan from Fresh‘s Mimi Cave; and Netflix’s rom-com A Family Affair with Joey King and Zac Efron.
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