‘The Horror Of Dolores Roach’ Starring Justina Machado Lands Amazon Series Order
deadline.comAmazon Studios has picked up to series The Horror of Dolores Roach pilot based on the hit Gimlet podcast, starring One Day At A Time alumna Justina Machado in the title role.
The project, in development at Amazon since 2020, hails from Blumhouse Television, which won the rights to adapt the podcast in 2019 in a competitive situation, Spotify’s Gimlet and GloNation Studios.
The Horror of Dolores Roach will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.The Horror of Dolores Roach originally was developed by podcast creator Aaron Mark as a one-woman play starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, who reprised her role in the podcast.
It is a grotesque Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of eat or be eaten — a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest.“Magic Hands” Dolores Roach (Machado) is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back.
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