The expected third season of the HBO star series, Big Little Lieshas taken a big step forward with the hiring of Francesca Sloanecooker, executive producer and showrunner of the series Mr. & Mrs. Smithto write the first episode of the third season, currently under development.
Sloane will be executive producer of the new installment together with the creator of the series, David E. Kelleyand the stars Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman. The agreement is part of an exclusive two -year contract that Sloane has signed with HBO.
Sloane moves to HBO from Amazon MGM Studios, where he maintained general contracts since 2020 and cooked alongside Donald Glover The successful dramatic series Mr. & Mrs. Smith. She has been an executive producer and showrunner of the series, whose second season, previously approved, has been delayed indefinitely.
The hiring of the screenwriter probably represents a double dose of good news for Big Little Lies fans. Casey Bloyspresident and executive director of HBO and HBO Max Content, said the past spring that he and his team were waiting for the sequel to Liane Moriarty Before moving forward with the third season of the successful thriller.
It is believed that Moriarty’s continuation of his novel Big Little Lies of 2014, which was based on the first season of the HBO series winning an Emmy, is finished and will be published in 2026. She has revealed that she presents a jump in time with women in the center of history now mothers of teenagers.
The agreement with Sloane culminates an extensive search that HBO began this summer to find a screenwriter for the third season of Big Little Liars. The result was a competition between half a dozen scriptwriters and consolidated screenwriters.
The success of Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies was a success of criticism and audience when it premiered in 2017 as miniseries. In 2019, a second season was released, based on original material, with Kelley as a screenwriter and executive producer of both deliveries.
The news that BLL would have a third season began to sound when Kidman showed in November 2023 that HBO was preparing a continuation of the criminal drama set on the coast. A couple of months before, his executive producer, Bruna Papandrea, told the Deadline portal that the story was tried, but the sudden death in 2021 of the executive producer and director of the first season of Big Little Lies, Jean-Marc Vallée, was a devastating blow for all involved, leaving a great emptiness and made us reflect.
BLL stars are Witherspoon, Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodleywho have publicly expressed their desire to return for a third season, along with Kelley. The cast of the series also includes Alexander Skarsgård, Adam Scott, James Tupper, Jeffrey Nordling and Meryl Streep In the second season.
The first season, about five women from Monterey, California, wrapped in a homicide investigation, won 8 16 nominations Emmy awards, including a better limited series, an address prize for Vallée and acting trophies for Kidman, Skarsgård and DERN.
Source: Ambito
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