EXCLUSIVE: Krysten Ritter has teamed with writer-producer Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant, Dead Boy Detectives) and Berlanti Productions for Retreat, a series adaptation of her novel of the same name. Ritter is executive producing with the intention to star in the project, which just hit the marketplace.
It comes from Warner Bros Television where Yockey and Berlanti Productions are under overall deals. The studio had optioned Ritter’s book for Yockey to adapt and Berlanti Productions to produce.
Retreat is an ongoing hourlong darkly comedic thriller featuring Liz Dawson (the role intended for Ritter) — a chameleon-like grifter who is always in control — until she’s cornered into assuming the identity of a wealthy dead woman in Punta Mita, Mexico. Suddenly, Liz finds herself in the middle of a sun-bleached Hitchcockian mystery, desperate to keep up her act. And then people start dying.
The project draws parallels to
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