EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Television has acquired the rights to the novel Friends Like These, the new thriller from New York Times Bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, and will developing as a series.
McCreight will also adapt the script with Amblin’s co-Presidents of Television Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey exec producing.
Alex Maggioni, SVP of television, will work with Frank and Falvey on the day-to-day development of the project.The novel follows five friends who gather at a picture perfect country house in the Catskills for a co-ed bachelor weekend.
It’s been a decade since graduation, but they have remained devoted to one another, forever bound by the mysterious and tragic death of Alice, their sixth member, during senior year.
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