Kit Steinkellner, Danny Strong & Darren Aronofsky Score Pilot Order At FX For ‘The Answers’ Adaptation
deadline.comCatherine Lacey’s novel The Answers is being adapted for television by Sorry for Your Loss creator Kit Steinkellner, Dopesick creator Danny Strong and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky.
The trio have scored a pilot order for the project at FX. The story is set in the near future, where a heartbroken young woman joins an enigmatic experiment that promises to hack love, but after moving into an idyllic, secluded location with her fellow female participants, she and the other women start questioning what’s really happening in the experiment, and why they’ve all been tasked with dating the same mysterious man.
The book, which was published in 2017, has been likened to The Handmaid’s Tale. It follows Mary Parsons, who becomes an emotional girlfriend in the “Girlfriend Experiment, the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor Kurt Sky.
Kit Steinkellner, who created and exec produced the Facebook series Sorry For Your Loss, starring Elizabeth Olsen, will write and exec produce.
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