Sophia Scorziello editor Legendary Entertainment has secured the rights to “The Golden Cage,” a psychological thriller novel by the award-winning Swedish author Camilla Läckberg.
The studio anticipates adapting the story about a wife scorned and her plot for revenge into a television series and is currently working on casting for the show. “The Golden Cage” follows Faye, a woman who runs away from her past to start a new, promising life with a successful career and a wonderful family.
She soon realizes, however, that she has traded in a life of independence and ambition so she can please her husband, a man who ends up betraying her in more ways than one.
To escape this golden cage, this facade of luxury, and return to her old self, Faye and her best friend team up to create the dish that’s best served cold: a cosmetics business called Revenge. “I’ve always thought that the rich characters and layered storyline of ‘The Golden Cage’ would make for a compelling TV series,” Läckberg said in a statement. “I couldn’t be happier that Legendary Entertainment shares this vision.
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