Jessica Alba To Star In & EP ‘Confessions On the 7:45’ Series In Works At Netflix From ‘Encanto’s Charise Castro Smith
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jessica Alba has closed a deal to executive produce and headline a series based on Lisa Unger’s international bestseller Confessions on the 7:45, which is in development at Netflix, sources tell Deadline.
Charise Castro Smith, co-writer and co-director of Disney’s Oscar-winning Encanto, is attached to adapt Unger’s novel. She also serves as showrunner and executive produces with Alba and 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst.Confessions on the 7:45 is a psychological thriller, in which a working mom (Alba) meets a stranger on a train as she is commuting home who upends her life.
As her life unravels and betrayals are revealed, she questions whether we can ever truly know the people closest to us.Alba, a working mom herself, had a strong reaction when she read Confessions on the 7:45, leading to her involvement in the project.“I could not put this book down.
The moment I read the line ‘if you want to keep a secret you must first hide it from yourself,’ I was hooked,” Alba said. “This book is about trying to bury secrets and the shame we carry until the truth exposes us.
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