Deadline has reported that actor Jamie Bell is joining Elisabeth Moss and Wagner Moura for Apple TV+’s adaptation of the crime novel The Shining Girls. Lauren Beukes’ critically acclaimed crime novel is receiving a television adaptation that is set to air exclusively on Apple TV+, with production starting sometime in May 2021. The series is starring acclaimed actress Elisabeth Moss and Wagner Moura in lead roles, with Jaime Bell joining to play playing a mysterious loner with a surprising connection to Moss’ character Kirby.
The book’s official synopsis, which tells us exactly what we can expect from the show, is as follows: “In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with a former homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby races against time and reason to unravel an impossible mystery.”
The Shining Girls is still in early development so we don’t know all the information, but aside from the main cast and the plot, we know that the show is going to be created by Silka Luisa (Strange Angel), who will also serve as an executive producer and showrunner for the series. News of an adaptation of the novel broke back in 2013, when it was announced that that MRC and Appian Way, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, have bought the television rights to The Shining Girls. It took, as you can see, almost a decade for the project to kick off and we’ll probably have to wait until 2022 for its premiere, but seeing who’s involved with the show, we are sure that Apple TV+ is going to have another great show on its roster.
