Package Steinkellner, Danny Sturdy & Darren Aronofsky Pilot FX The Solutions – Deadline

Catherine Lacey’s novel The Solutions is being tailored for tv by Sorry for Your Loss creator Package Steinkellner, Dopesick creator Danny Sturdy and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky.

The trio have scored a pilot order for the undertaking at FX.

The story is ready within the close to future, the place a heartbroken younger girl joins an enigmatic experiment that guarantees to hack love, however after shifting into an idyllic, secluded location together with her fellow feminine individuals, she and the opposite girls begin questioning what’s actually occurring within the experiment, and why they’ve all been tasked with relationship the identical mysterious man.

The ebook, which was printed in 2017, has been likened to The Handmaid’s Story. It follows Mary Parsons, who turns into an emotional girlfriend within the “Girlfriend Experiment, the brainchild of a rich and notorious actor Kurt Sky.

Package Steinkellner, who created and exec produced the Fb collection Sorry For Your Loss, starring Elizabeth Olsen, will write and exec produce.

Danny Sturdy, who additionally co-created Empire and Darren Aronofsky, who directed buzzy A24 movie The Whale with Brendan Fraser and is an exec producer on FX’s Hulu collection Kindred, will exec produce with Mandy Safavi with Danny Sturdy Productions and Ari Handel and Elizabeth Gesas with Aronofsky’s Protozoa Photos. 

Gillian Robespierre, who wrote and directed function movies Apparent Youngster and Landline, and has directed episodes of A Instructor and And Simply Like That…, is ready to direct and govt produce the pilot.

The one-hour drama pilot might be produced by twentieth Tv.

Steinkellner is represented by Circle of Confusion and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan, Sturdy and Aronofsky are represented by CAA. Lacey is represented by CAA, The Wylie Company, and Eva Dickerman and Robespierre is represented by UTA.