Netflix is eyeing an early 2000s bestseller for its next series adaptation of a book.
The streamer is developing a show based on The Nanny Diaries, a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the 2007 feature film based on the book, will serve as an executive producer on the project from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions.
Amy Chozick (The Girls on the Bus) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City, HBO’s Divorce) are adapting the novel and will serve as showrunners on the potential series.
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Whereas the film more or less followed the book’s plot, the series description suggests a somewhat different take. “Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story, takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable
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