Paramount+ revealed the freshman series Fatal Attraction is set to premiere on April 30 with two episodes airing back to back.
Series executive producer Alexandra Cunningham teases how the drama will be similar to the hit 1987 film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close during the show’s TCA Panel on Monday. “The screenwriter of the film, James Dearden said, to him the character of Alex Forrest is not a study in madness, but rather a sad, tragic, lonely woman under pressure from a really hard job.
As a frequently sad, not at all tragic, and not as lonely as I wish was but under pressure from a really hard job, I wanted us to go in a slightly different direction,” said executive producer Alexandra Cunningham.
She continued, “This reimagining of Fatal Attraction shares a lot with the iconic original film, but it also is about entitlement and midlife crisis and how some of the sausage gets made in our broken justice system, as well as Cluster B personality disorders, isolation, of fathers and daughters, and murder.
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