Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show), Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) and Riverdale’s Cole Sprouse are attached to star in Blood Ties, a drama based on a Nathan Heller article in The New Yorker.
Aaron Katz (Gemini) wrote the script and will direct.Automatik’s Fred Berger (La La Land) is producing.Mbatha-Raw plays Detective Reese Rezek, who obsessively investigates the brutal murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom, a seemingly ordinary couple in suburban Virginia.
As Reese unravels dark possibilities behind their deaths, two suspects emerge: their daughter, Lizzy (Shipka) and her boyfriend, Jens (Sprouse).
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