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EXCLUSIVE: Krysten Ritter has teamed up pinch writer-producer Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant, Dead Boy Detectives) and Berlanti Productions for Retreat, a bid adjustment of her caller by nan aforesaid name. Ritter is executive producing pinch nan volition to prima successful nan project, which conscionable deed nan marketplace.
It comes from Warner Bros. Television wherever Yockey and Berlanti Productions are nether wide deals. The workplace had optioned Ritter’s book for Yockey to accommodate and Berlanti Productions to produce.
Retreat is an ongoing hourlong darkly comedic thriller featuring Liz Dawson (the domiciled intended for Ritter) — a chameleon-like grifter who is ever successful power — until she’s cornered into assuming nan personality of a able dormant female successful Punta Mita, Mexico. Suddenly, Liz finds herself successful nan mediate of a sun-bleached Hitchcockian mystery, hopeless to support up her act. And past group commencement dying.
The task draws parallels to different darkly comedic thriller pinch a female lead based connected a bestselling caller by a female author, HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, which besides was created by Yockey and produced by Berlanti Prods. for Warner Bros. TV.
Ritter and Yockey executive nutrient Retreat with Berlanti Prods’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman.
Coming disconnected Dexter: Resurrection, successful which she appeared other Michael C. Hall, Peter Dinklage, and Uma Thurman, Ritter will adjacent reprise her domiciled arsenic Jessica Jones successful Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again for Disney+. Her caller credits besides see David E. Kelley’s constricted bid Love & Death for HBO Max and Netflix’s imagination movie Nightbooks. The bestselling Retreat, published successful 2025, is Ritter’s 2nd caller pursuing nan 2017 psychological thriller Bonfire.
In summation to The Flight Attendant, which earned Yockey Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, he was nan creator and showrunner of Berlanti Prods./Warner Bros. TV’s Netflix bid Dead Boy Detectives, based connected nan Vertigo/DC Comics comic books.
Berlanti Prods. has nan live-action Scooby-Doo bid for Netflix, pilots How To Survive Without Me astatine HBO Max and Foster Dade at Hulu and bid Stillwater successful nan useful astatine Amazon.
Ritter is repped by CAA, Kyle Luker astatine Industry Entertainment, Steve Caserta astatine Principal Entertainment, and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson. Yockey is repped by CAA, Wetdog Entertainment, and Goodman Genow Schenkman Smelkinson & Christopher.
