Yvonne Strahovski To Headline & EP ‘A Woman Of Intelligence’ Series In Works At UCP
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale, Stateless) is set to star and executive produce a series adaptation of A Woman of Intelligence, based on Karin Tanabe’s bestselling novel.
UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is developing the project with Strahovski’s Anovi Peak Productions. A platform has yet to been determined.
Tom Bidwell (The Irregulars, My Mad Fat Diary) serves as writer and executive producer. In the series, overwhelmed with the relentlessness and loneliness of motherhood, a 1950’s housewife (Strahovski) finds a way to rediscover herself when she is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the KGB.
But before long, what started as a good way to get childcare fast turns into a nightmare and she realizes that her family’s future and the fate of the western world are in her hands.
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