Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorApple has given a series order to Shining Girls, a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel The Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
MRC Television is the studio.Writer-creator Silka Luisa (Strange Angel) will pen the adaptation, executive produce and serve as showrunner.The Shining Girls book centers on a time-traveling Depression-era drifter who must murder the “shining girls” in order to continue his travels.Moss will star as a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.
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