Penn Badgley simply cannot escape the killers.
THE You star will headline a homicide thriller on Prime Video titled Everybody in my household has killed somebody. Prime has positioned a sequence order for the mission from showrunner David Hemingson, Fifth Season and Made Up Tales. The sequence is predicated on the novel of the identical identify by Benjamin Stevenson.
“I’m thrilled to companion with Fifth Season and Made Up Tales to convey Ben’s heartfelt, darkly hilarious thriller to life,” mentioned Hemingson (The leftovers). “And we’re so fortunate to have Penn as our important character. I am unable to consider any actor higher suited to convey Ern’s depth, brilliance and hilariously dry humorousness to life.”
Everybody in my household has killed somebody follows Ern Cunningham (Badgley), a “crime writing skilled” who travels to Vermont for a household reunion “to welcome his brother Michael from jail — the identical brother Ern helped convict,” the present’s logline reads. “When a frozen physique seems and a snowstorm traps everybody inside, the deaths start to mount. Everybody in Ern’s household has already killed somebody, both by chance or in any other case.”
Hemingson will government produce the sequence together with Made Up Tales’ Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Jeanne Snow, Molly Allen, Badgley and Stevenson.
“I’m blown away by everybody’s imaginative and prescient and enthusiasm for bringing this e book and Ernest Cunningham to the display,” Stevenson mentioned. “Penn completely captures Ern’s intelligence and smarts, and David introduced lots of spirit and coronary heart to the script. With the fervour of Amazon MGM Studios, Bruna and Steve behind us, we now have a fully lethal workforce, and I am unable to wait to unravel a homicide with them.”
Stevenson’s 2022 novel launched a profitable sequence – there are at present 4 Ernest Cunningham mysteries and the creator is writing a fifth.
“We’re thrilled to convey Ben’s sensational e book to life within the good fingers of Dave Hemingson,” mentioned Papandrea and Hutensky. “We discovered the right Ern in Penn and it’s a dream to make this sequence with our unbelievable companions Amazon MGM Studios and Fifth Season.”
Peter Friedlander, head of worldwide tv at Amazon MGM, added: “Everybody in my household has killed somebody is a brilliantly ingenious sequence that shakes up the homicide thriller style in essentially the most surprising and entertaining methods. Ben created a world that was darkish and humorous and extremely clever. Mixed with David’s sharp storytelling and Penn’s magnetic presence, and our unbelievable companions at Season 5 and Made Up Tales, this sequence goes to be one thing actually particular for Prime Video.
Badgley is repped by Brillstein Leisure Companions, CAA, The Lede Firm and Hansen Jacobson. Hemingson is accompanied by 3 Arts, WME and McKuin Frankel. Stevenson is repped by Mental Property Group and Curtis Brown Australia.