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FX has ordered nan caller constricted bid The Marriage Plot, an adjustment of nan Jeffrey Eugenides caller of nan aforesaid name, for FX and Hulu. The task hails from writer Will Arbery (Succession), who besides executive produces pinch Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Widow’s Bay), who will besides direct.
Sadie Sink (Stranger Things, The Whale) has been tapped to prima and executive produce.
The Marriage Plot follows 3 caller assemblage graduates caught successful an all-consuming emotion triangle arsenic they reconcile their youthful romanticist aspirations pinch looming adulthood and make life-altering choices astir emotion and identity.
“The Marriage Plot is simply a cleanable fresh for FX: ambitious, character-driven storytelling that offers different awesome opportunity to partner pinch exceptional artists,” shared Gina Balian, President, FX Entertainment.
Arbery and Murai service arsenic executive producers on pinch Steven Prinz and Rachel Jacobs for Borderless Pictures, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman for Aggregate Films, Eugenides, Sink, and Carver Karaszewski and Claudia Shin for Chum Films, and pinch Yiyi Huang serving arsenic Producer. The bid is produced by A24 and FX Productions.
This is Arbery’s 2nd bid order astatine FX successful little than a year, pinch his original bid Seven Sisters picked up successful December. He first became known for his activity successful theatre pinch “Heroes of nan Fourth Turning,” a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He went connected to go a writer for nan HBO deed show Succession, earning him a WGA Award for Episodic Drama. Arbery is represented by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Ziffren Brittenham.
Murai is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and head crossed TV, film, and euphony videos. Most recently, he produced and directed nan deed Apple horror-comedy bid Widow’s Bay and is presently processing his theatrical characteristic directorial debut, nan A24 samurai movie Bushido. He besides leads his accumulation company, Chum Films, and has a first-look woody pinch FX Productions. Murai is represented by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.
Sink first gained nickname arsenic Max Mayfield successful Netflix’s deed bid Stranger Things. On nan movie side, she starred other Brendan Fraser successful Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which earned her a Critics Choice Award nomination. Additional movie credits see Fear Street, The Glass Castle, and Chuck. Next, she will subordinate nan Marvel Cinematic Universe successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and is group to executive shaper nan movie adjustment of John Proctor Is The Villain for Universal. Sink is repped by WME.
