EXCLUSIVE: Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards, which is both a podcast and novel, is in the works at HBO as a drama series, Deadline has learned.
Ellis will write and EP with Nick Hall and Brian Young. The Shards tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles High School friends as a serial killer strikes across the city, set in 1981.
The podcast dropped last year on Ellis’ Patreon and Knopf published the book on Jan. 17. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past.
Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle.
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