HULU GOES STRAIGHT-TO-SERIES WITH ELLE FANNING TEXTING SUICIDE DRAMA & FOOD DOC FROM DAVID CHANG & MORGAN NEVILLE
First Published on Deadline.com
ELLE FANNING IS TO STAR IN THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE ABOUT THE MICHELLE CARTER TEXTING-SUICIDE CASE WITH HULU PICKING UP THE DRAMA STRAIGHT-TO-SERIES.
The thriller comes from The Post writer Liz Hannah and Dr. Death exec producer Patrick Macmanus and is produced by UCP, which last year won the rights in a competitive situation to Jesse Barron’s 2017 Esquire true crime article The Girl From Plainville about the case.
The Girl From Plainville is considered the definitive account of the events that led Michelle Carter, a young woman from a small town in Massachusetts, to stand trial for her boyfriend Conrad Roy’s homicide, as prosecutors argued that her calls and texts fueled his suicide when they were both teens.
The story was recently the subject of an HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die from Erin Lee Car, who is a consulting producer alongside Barron.