Blumhouse Television has acquired rights to Marisha Pessl’s #1 national bestselling novel Darkly for a series adaptation, Deadline reports.
Jamie Lee Curtis will executive produce the project through her company Comet Pictures’ first-look deal with the studio, along with Jason Blum and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse and Pessl.
The search is underway for a screenwriter to adapt the YA psychological thriller, which was published in November by Random House. Here’s the book’s synopsis:
What would you kill for? When an ad for an internship with the Louisiana Veda Foundation poses this question, seemingly every high school student in the country rushes to apply.
Arcadia “Dia” Gannon has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the late game designer whose obsessive creations have attained a cultlike status, ever since she and her mom played Disappearing Act—but Dia has never won anything in her life. So she’s shocked when she’s chosen as an intern, along with six other teenagers from around the world.
Little is known about Louisiana Veda. Her game-making empire, Darkly, was renowned for its ingenious, terrifying toys and games, rife with hidden symbols and secrets. But after Veda’s mysterious death, Darkly went bankrupt, and production was discontinued. The remaining games are priced like highly sought-after works of art, with the rarest and most notorious items commanding tens of millions of dollars at auction.
Now the interns are thrust into the enigmatic heart of Louisiana Veda’s operation, and Dia immediately questions everything: Who are these other kids? Why do they all seem to have something to hide? And why was she really chosen? It soon becomes clear that this summer will be the most twisted Darkly game of all.
The project will be shepherded by Blumhouse TV’s incoming president Melissa Aouate, who starts later this month.
Curtis’ deal with Blumhouse already has yielded two series executive produced by her, “The Sticky” and “Scarpetta,” both for Prime Video. She also appears in the latter.
It was announced last week that Curtis is starring in and producing Russell Goldman’s psychological horror film Sender, currently in production.
