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EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling writer Kimberly McCreight is extending her streak of each of her books getting optioned for movie aliases TV. Her upcoming caller Someone Else’s Husband, which has made respective lists of Summer 2026’s astir anticipated titles, has been preemptively acquired by Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment up of its June 16 merchandise by Knopf.
McCreight will co-write nan adjustment and will service arsenic an executive shaper alongside 3 Arts Partner Erwin Stoff. The scheme is to connect a showrunner and return nan task to marketplace soon.
Someone Else’s Husband is simply a psychological thriller that follows Gretchen Falk, a able Park Avenue woman whose life originates to unravel aft her hubby Richard embarks connected a climbing expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro wherever he meets and has an matter pinch an artist, Frankie. Weeks later, Frankie is murdered, and Richard is nan premier suspect, forcing Gretchen to face nan reality of her husband’s life and her own.
“Someone Else’s Husband explores nan complexities of love, loss, betrayal and nan consequences of nan secrets we keep,” said McCreight who utilized her ain climbing travel to Kilimanjaro arsenic inspiration for nan book. “I’m thrilled to partner pinch Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts, whose way grounds of adapting bold, character-driven stories into propulsive bid makes them nan perfect squad to bring this caller to nan screen.”
Courtney Mock, SVP of Scripted Development, Lionsgate Television, is overseeing for nan indie studio.
“This is an addictive, emotionally layered thriller pinch tremendous bid potential,” she said. “We’re excited to activity alongside Kimberly and Erwin to bring this provocative, compelling communicative to viewers.”
This marks nan latest collaboration betwixt 3 Arts and mostly proprietor Lionsgate. 3 Arts and Lionsgate TV are down Netflix’s breakout The Hunting Wives, besides based connected a book, which Stoff executive produces. He besides executive produces Fox’s deed aesculapian play Doc.
“Kimberly has created unforgettable characters and a world that audiences will instantly beryllium drawn into,” Stoff said. “It’s nan benignant of emotionally charged thriller that sparks conversation, keeps audiences guessing and has each nan ingredients of a must-watch tv series.”
McCreight is nan writer of Reconstructing Amelia, Where They Found Her, A Good Marriage, Friends Like These, Like Mother, Like Daughter, and The Outliers trilogy. A Good Marriage is group up astatine Amazon pinch Nicole Kidman executive producing nether her Blossom Films banner. Friends Like These is successful improvement astatine Amazon pinch Amblin. More than a decade ago, Lionsgate acquired nan characteristic movie authorities to McCreight’s sci-fi YA trilogy The Outliers. She is repped by WME, Bob Bookman, and Victoria Cook of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
