According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sadie Sink (The Whale, All Too Well: The Short Film) is set to star in and executive-produce a limited series based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ (The Virgin Suicide, Fresh Complaint) novel The Marriage Plot at FX.
Will Arbery (A Still Life, Your Resources) is adapting the novel, and Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Widow’s Bay) is set to direct The Hollywood Reporter reports. A24 and FX Productions will be behind the production for the series. This will be the second series that Arbery will be adapting at FX. He’s also writing and executive producing a family drama called Seven Sisters, starring Elizabeth Olsen (Love & Death, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness).
“The Marriage Plot is a perfect fit for FX: ambitious, character-driven storytelling that offers another great opportunity to partner with exceptional artists,” said Gina Balian, president of FX Entertainment, via The Hollywood Reporter. “We look forward to building on our partnerships with Will and Hiro, both of whom are extraordinary talents who we are proud to work with again.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the series “follows three recent college graduates caught in an all-consuming love triangle as they reconcile their youthful romantic aspirations with looming adulthood and make life-altering choices about love and identity,”the show’s logline reads.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Arbery and Murai will executive produce The Marriage Plot with Steven Prinz (Swarm, Paper Girls) and Rachel Jacobs (Uncle Buck, ay by Day) for Borderless Pictures, Michael Costigan (Cyrus, Out of the Furnace) and Jason Bateman (Ozark, Black Rabbit) for Aggregate Films, Eugenides, Sink, and Carver Karaszewski (I’m a Virgo, Beauty) and Claudia Shin (Pizza Girl, Widow’s Bay) for Chum Films. Yiyi Huang (The Grandmaster, Neon) serves as producer.
Sink is known for her work on many series an films via The Hollywood Reporter. Her credits include playing Max Mayfield on Netflix’s Stranger Things, Ellie on the film The Whale alongside Brenan Fraser (The Mummy, Doom Patrol) an many others. Sink can also be seen in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, due in theaters July 31.