Bill Lawrence, Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis Team to Develop Carl Hiaasen Novel ‘Skinny Dip’ at Max (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Another Carl Hiaasen novel is being developed as a TV series with Bill Lawrence onboard. Variety has learned exclusively that a series version of Hiaasen’s novel “Skinny Dip” is currently in development at Max with Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis set to write and Lawrence attached as an executive producer.

The logline for the one-hour dramedy series describes it as “a screwball-romantic-comedy-triangle about murder, revenge, and greed in the Everglades.” Lawrence, a longtime fan of Hiaasen, is currently the creator and showrunner on the series adaptation of “Bad Monkey” at Apple TV+.

That show debuted at Apple in August 2024 and was renewed for a second season in December. Horowitz and Kitsis will write and executive produce “Skinny Dip.” Lawrence, Jeff Ingold, and Liza Katzer will executive produce via Doozer.

Warner Bros. Television, where Doozer is under an overall deal, is the studio. Horowitz and Kitsis are best known as the creators of the popular ABC series “Once Upon a Time,” which ran for seven seasons and over 150 episodes at the broadcast network.